Israel’s election cycle is accelerating – the government is falling apart again, with elections in the fall

In Israel, it is hardly time to remove the billboards from the previous election when they need to be re-erected.

Prime minister Naphtali Bennett announced on television that evening that the coalition government of the eight parties, which had been barely assembled a year ago, had become inoperable and that parliament was being disbanded.

“The break-up of the government was a difficult decision, but it was right for Israel,” Bennett said.

The specialty of the coalition government was that a rotation of prime ministers was agreed for it. The first two years were reserved for the leader of the nationalist Jamina party, Bennett, and the next two for the leader of the Yesh Atid party, the foreign minister. To Yair Lapid.

The structure did not work. Bennett and Lapid are proposing the dissolution of the Knesset next week. As the proposal is most likely going through, the board will be working on surrogate arrangements for the rest of the term.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will step down and the Foreign Ministry will be headed by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.

Political deadlocks will be resolved with a new election that would be the fifth in less than four years. Elections are expected in October-November.

The common denominator in last year’s elections and the very difficult government negotiations was the voters’ desire to get rid of the long-running prime minister. Benjamin of Netanyahu.

As leader of the Likud party, Netanyahu led numerous governments for 12 years, from 2009-2021. During his term as prime minister, he became involved in a number of corruption cases that have been in the woods for years in various courts.

In opinion polls, Likud is on the rise again. Netanyahu has already expressed his will to form a new government.

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