Israel will hold its fifth parliamentary elections in less than four years. Ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hailed for success in the autumn elections.
In Israel, the country’s parliament, the Knesset, has today voted to dissolve itself.
The result of the vote was expected, although the vote alone had become a political battle. Among other things, the vote was postponed numerous times.
Leader of the far-right Yamina party and the resigning prime minister of Israel Naphtali Bennett Already said last week that the government’s sky has come to an end.
Bennett has led an ideologically divided coalition government for a year. There have been eight political groups in the government, from nationalists to liberals as well as Arab parties.
The final death knell for a fragmented government has been seen as failing to get a renewed emergency law protecting the dichotomous judicial system in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Hundreds of thousands of settlers living in the West Bank are subject to civil law when more than two million Palestinians in the area are subject to martial law. As the Knesset disbanded before the turn of the month, the exemption law will automatically be renewed until a new government is formed in Israel, news channel Al Jazeera reports. (switch to another service)
The government was seen as a counterweight to Netanhaju
The most important common denominator in the Bennett government last year was that it received the longest-running prime minister of Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu away from the power handle.
At the time of its birth, a special arrangement was also agreed for Bennett’s coalition government – a rotating prime minister.
The current foreign minister Yair Lapidin it is scheduled to begin as Prime Minister of the Ministry of Administration on Thursday and Friday. The former host show represents the liberal Yesh Atid party.
The beginning of Lapid’s term falls on the President of the United States, for example Joe Biden visit next month.
Bennett, for his part, announced yesterday on Wednesday that he will not run in the upcoming election.
Netanyahu’s party is being hailed
Nethanhaj also probably needs religious and nationalist political groups behind it to get a majority of the 120-seat Knesset. Netanuhu has been accused of corruption. The former prime minister has denied the charges. The case is still pending.
Elections are scheduled for November 1.