Israeli Elections
The next round, slated for March 23, will take place amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the corruption trial of the prime minister.
Additional lawmakers are expected to make similar announcements in the coming days as another election seems imminent.
Following the recent high-profile cyber attack on a major insurance company, State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman’s office looks to safeguard the integrity of the voting process.
Given the interviews that the defense minister and opposition leader gave over the weekend, it appears that a path to a renewed partnership between the two former allies is particularly unlikely.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of undermining the power-sharing agreement that both Likud, and Blue and White, had formed earlier this year.
“It is illegal for a foreign company to intervene in the Israeli elections by funding organizations in Israel,” says Im Tirtzu policy director Alon Schvartzer.
In both polls, the Labour Party would fail to meet the four-seat threshold for the first time since its founding in the 1960s.
According to a Channel 12 survey, if elections were held today, the Likud Party and right-wing bloc headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would win a clear Knesset majority.
“The people wanted unity, and that is what it got,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We hope the court doesn’t interfere. It doesn’t need to interfere. There is the will of the people, the clear expression of the will of the people,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Labor leader Amir Peretz set to become Israel’s economy minister following a party vote in favor of joining the coalition • Peretz: “Strategic cooperation” with Blue and White leader Benny Gantz “will return Labor to its place as a leading and influential political movement.”
Details on the forthcoming new Israeli government, to be formally signed next week after Yom Ha’aztmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. Its first order of business will be to pass legislation to set the Netanyahu-Gantz rotation in motion.
