Global Challenges | Political chaos in Israel after elections

Israel would have no other than a fifth election 3:05

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An unprecedented reality in Israel.

After four general elections there is still no clear winner who can form a stable coalition.

Could there be no other alternative than to call a fifth election?

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with José Levy.

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Here is a fragment of the episode's transcript.

This week the topic is Political Chaos, yes, no more and no less, which is reached in Israel when after four general elections, four, in less than two years, no one seems to win and it is not ruled out that in the end the only one The solution is to not solve anything and call a fifth election in the next few months.

It is true that it has been the one who accumulates no less than fifteen years as Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who with his Likud party, won the largest number of seats, 30, almost double the 17 of the second party that had the most votes, Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid.

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But 30 is far from enough.

In Israel, Parliament has 120 seats, so a coalition of political parties that represents at least half plus one, or 61 deputies, is necessary to form a government.

And that is what is not known if Netanyahu will achieve.

What's going on.

There are no less than 13 parties that won seats in these elections.

Thirteen.

A real puzzle where each one, with their own ideology, often rules out being in the same coalition with those who do not think like them.

If you talk about an ineffective system, a real political nightmare, this is a clear example.

Even the country's president, Reuven Rivlin, worried that this damages the public's confidence in the democratic process itself.

Now Netanyahu, or also alternatively on the other side his political opponents, have to demonstrate, say, squaring the circle, and make competing ideologies of different parties accept, despite everything, to sit together in the same government.

Netanyahu and his political rivals both have a tough time.

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