Israel is on the brink of political chaos.
Again.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's partner in Israel's national unity government, Benny Gantz, on Tuesday evening announced his intention to vote on Wednesday in favor of an opposition motion calling for the dissolution of parliament and the holding of new elections .
The centrist Bleu-Blanc party "will vote tomorrow in favor of dissolving Parliament," said Benny Gantz, leader of this party, in a televised address on the eve of a preliminary vote on an opposition motion calling for the dissolution of the chamber.
But the former general, currently minister of defense in the unity government, at the same time called on Mr. Netanyahu, to make "the budget vote by the government so that the citizens of Israel do not end up at the polls." in March ".
He thus urged the Prime Minister, whom he accused in particular of asserting his personal interest before that of Israel, to come to a compromise in order to adopt the budget for the year 2020, when the country has still no guideline for its public finances, and 2021.
"The time is not for elections, but for unity," said Benjamin Netanyahu, a few minutes before the speech by Benny Gantz, affirming that the political class had to unite in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic which has including exploding unemployment in Israel.
Accusing the current unity government of being the “worst in the history of Israel” and of failing to manage the coronavirus crisis, opposition leader Yaïr Lapid has therefore called for a vote Wednesday to dissolve the Knesset, parliament.
Dissolution of parliament would lead to new national elections, the fourth in less than two years, in Israel, after three polls that placed the troops of Likud Prime Minister and ex-army chief Benny Gantz at their elbow elbow.
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After three votes that did not allow either of the two to rally a majority of deputies out of the 120 in the Knesset, they agreed in the spring to form a government of unity and crisis in the midst of the coronavirus period.
But in recent months, the local press has reported many dissensions between "Bibi" and Benny Gantz who announced Tuesday evening that he was going to vote for the dissolution of the Knesset.
Wednesday's vote is a preliminary vote.
And a dissolution of the chamber requires that the opposition project be adopted at third reading.
According to political commentators, by voting this motion to dissolve the Knesset, Benny Gantz is not necessarily seeking to call an election but to put pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu in order to re-establish the coalition.
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If the Knesset were dissolved, elections would be called 90 days later with a possible umpteenth change in political configuration in Israel.
Dissolution at the end of the road
The latest polls credit Benyamin Netanyahu's Likud with first place, ahead of the radical right-wing Yamina (opposition) party of Naftali Bennett, the Yesh Atid Telem party of centrist Yaïr Lapid and the Blue-White party of Benny Gantz.
In the last three elections, these last two parties had joined forces in a coalition, but Benny Gantz had shattered this pact to join Benjamin Netanyahu and thus end the longest political crisis in the history of Israel.
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Netanyahu and Gantz are planning a split of ministries and a rotation for the post of prime minister which is due to fall to the former army chief in a year.
Fourth in the polls, and promised in a year to lead the government, Benny Gantz would not do well to call for new elections according to the Israeli press.
Aside from this opposition motion, if there is no consensus on the adoption of the budget by December 23, the Knesset will dissolve on its own and new elections will be called in March 2021.
