Israel Netanyahu returns to power after winning the fifth election in less than 4 years
Netanyahu From the most heterogeneous coalition to the most right-wing in Israel
At ten o'clock at night on November 1, the polls at the polls in Israel already indicated that President Isaac Herzog would entrust the formation of a government to the conservative leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
And so it has been this Sunday in
a formal but fundamental step
in his return to power after a year and a half in the opposition.
The sixth executive of the longest-serving prime minister (96-99 and 2009-2021) is likely to be the one to end
a loop of five elections in less than four years
and at the same time the most right-wing in Israel's history.
The extreme polarization around Netanyahu due above all to the investigation and subsequent trial for corruption - some parties boycott him even if that meant giving up being part of the government and others were faithful to him even if that meant staying in the opposition in June 2021 - has made this country have in two years the most heterogeneous coalition (eight right, left, center and one Arab party) and now, if there are no surprises, the most homogeneous.
Given that Netanyahu's bloc of Likud and various ultra-conservative and religious parties won
64 of 120 seats
, Herzog's consultations with representatives of the 12 elected lists have not had the dramatic cliffhanger of recent years.
In fact, the day after the elections, he began the steps to form the Government that he hopes to present in a period of one to two weeks at the most in the Knesset.
No one believes, starting with himself, that he needs the 42 days (28 plus 14 extensions) that the law grants him.
Far from it failing, for example, in May of last year, allowing
Yair Lapid
to sew the only government that has not been under Bibi's baton since 2009.
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