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2021-05-03T21:37:06.721Z


After a dramatic day of foolish attempts to pressure Bennett and Smutrich, Netanyahu will be forced to return to the presidency. Rivlin will then have to choose between imposing it on another candidate and returning it directly to the Knesset. The Likud will work to thwart the first option, while contacts between Bennett and Lapid continue


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26 hours for the mandate to expire: the options facing Rivlin in the shadow of the maneuvers on the right and left

After a dramatic day of foolish attempts to pressure Bennett and Smutrich, Netanyahu will be forced to return to the presidency.

Rivlin will then have to choose between imposing it on another candidate and returning it directly to the Knesset.

The Likud will work to thwart the first option, while contacts between Bennett and Lapid continue

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The mandate will return to the President's House.

Rivlin (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel / Flash 90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hourglass is running out, with the last and crucial 26 hours until his mandate to form the government expires.

After a dramatic day of last and foolish attempts to pressure right-wing chairman Naftali Bennett and religious Zionist chairman Bezalel Smutrich, who were denied, Netanyahu had no choice but to avoid returning the seat to the president's house.



The Prime Minister's Office also held feverish consultations tonight, but no fantastic or surprising panacea was found in them.

And so, apparently, tomorrow at midnight, the game will return to the hands of President Reuven Rivlin, who will have to decide whether and to whom he now entrusts the work of assembling the government.



Netanyahu does not need to inform Rivlin or any other man for the purpose that he has failed in his efforts to form a government - the mandate will simply expire on its own after the 28 days it received in the first place.

On Wednesday morning the president is expected to open consultations, and has by law, three days to decide what to do next: Unlike the traditional recommendation ceremony immediately after the election, this time Rivlin does not intend to summon all faction leaders but to announce that his position has changed Feel free to contact him.

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Rivlin should not be informed that he has failed.

Netanyahu on the plenary stage (Photo: Official website, Noam Moskowitz, Knesset Spokeswoman)

The law leaves the president with very broad discretion as to how to hold the consultations, on whom to impose the mandate, and what the next step of the political system is in a tangle; By law, he can now choose one of two options: the first - to transfer the seat to another candidate, who will be given 28 days to try to form a government, to return the seat to the Knesset; The second - if he comes to the conclusion that there is no candidate who has the real ability to form a coalition that will win the Knesset's trust - skip this month and return the mandate directly to the Knesset. Then a 21-day period will open in which only if 61 MKs sign for one candidate - he will get the opportunity to try to form a government.



But before skipping back to the Knesset, the coveted mandate has at least two contenders for the crown. Chairman Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid, wants to accept The mandate in his hands to continue efforts to form a unity government with right-wing chairman Naftali Bennett, who would have preferred the mandate to be in his possession for the coming month to keep the door open for the right-wing government formation track as well.



In the previous round, Lapid had 45 recommendations from all the factions in the bloc that oppose Netanyahu, and Bennett had only seven recommendations, from members of the right.

Lapid is determined to accept the mandate, among other things to gain control of the Knesset's organizing committee that will allow him to block Netanyahu's and the right's initiatives and moves.

Continues in contacts.

Torch (Photo: Flash 90, Olivier Fitoussi)

The Likud, on the other hand, is determined to prevent this, and in recent days has considered a series of moves that will prevent it from accepting the mandate, which they have in common - a unified recommendation of 52 members of the right-wing bloc for another candidate. Among other things, Netanyahu is examining the possibility of recommending Bennett, or another straw candidate, such as Shas chairman Aryeh Deri or another Likud official - just so that the mandate does not fall into Lapid's hands.



At the same time, Lapid is trying to raise more recommendations that will strengthen his demand for the mandate from the president. In the previous round of recommendations, 16 MKs - members of Tikva Hadash, the joint list, and RAAM - decided not to decide and did not recommend any candidate. Against the background of Netanyahu's press candidate exercises, Lapid tries to persuade them to change their decision and inform the president that they are joining his list of recommenders.



But it is not certain that the race of recommenders necessarily exists, because the president's decision does not have to be purely mathematical.

Even if all 52 MKs in the right-wing bloc unite behind Bennett and bring him to 59 supporters, from last month it is clear that this is not enough to form a government - because otherwise Netanyahu would have formed it during his mandate. It is not inconceivable that out of fairness of the game, Rivlin would prefer to move him to the opposing bloc.

The Likud wants to complicate the race for recommendations

The Likud wants to complicate the second race of recommendations and consultations as much as possible, so that the president will come to the conclusion that no one has a chance of forming a government and will skip with the seat a month ahead straight to the Knesset seat.

But Rivlin is not locked up in a secluded house on a high hill, inside his people he sits.

He sees and hears the Likud exercises and maneuvers and will not necessarily be in a hurry to cooperate with them.

The main question that will face him is whether anyone else has a chance to form a government.

Lapid and Bennett's talks to form a unity government are ongoing and advanced, but have not yet reached a decisive stage;

And for Lapid to receive the mandate from the president, Bennett and Saar may be required to question how much they believe in and are committed to them.

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