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In Israel, ex-journalist Yaïr Lapid charged with forming a government

2021-05-06T11:04:43.682Z


Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose party won the election, failed to form a coalition. The "magician" has missed his tricks. Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a government before the deadline of midnight Tuesday. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will now give a chance to the rival and eclectic camp whose only glue is to want to eject the prime minister from power after twelve years of reign. On Wednesday, he appointed Yaïr Lapid, a former journalist and TV presenter, leader of the ce


The "magician" has missed his tricks.

Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a government before the deadline of midnight Tuesday.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will now give a chance to the rival and eclectic camp whose only glue is to want to eject the prime minister from power after twelve years of reign.

On Wednesday, he appointed Yaïr Lapid, a former journalist and TV presenter, leader of the center-left Yesh Atid party, to try to get the country out of the political impasse in which he has been plunged since the legislative elections of March 23, the fourth In two years.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, however, had many cards in hand on paper.

His party, Likud, won the ballot.

It has 30 seats in the new Knesset where the right of all tendencies is dominant, and it enjoys the support of the ultra-Orthodox.

As a savvy tactician, the Prime Minister had imagined a convoluted formula to win the bet.

He favored the union of the Messianic far right to enter Parliament.

At the same time, it has fractured the parties representing Arab Israelis.

One of their leaders, Mansour Abbas, an Islamo-conservative who seceded, won elected officials in the House and declared himself ready to support without participation a government led by Netanyahu in order to obtain aid for his community. . But the plan backfired against its instigator. Bezalel Smotrich, the leading figure of religious Zionists, refused an agreement for a government whose fate would depend, according to him, on

“Arab terrorists”

. Naftali Bennett, the leader of Yamina, a movement of the radical religious right, which aims to one day replace "Bibi", then had a nice game to decline the offers of service of the head of government. In a final impetus, the Prime Minister went so far as to offer him to share his post in a rotation system.

Benjamin Netanyahu encountered two major difficulties in his endeavor: he lost, by dint of broken promises and crude maneuvers, the confidence of a large part of the political class and he alienated his fellow countrymen. road.

Yamina's number 2, Ayelet Shaked, his former justice minister, called him and his wife Sara

"tyrants"

,

"dictators"

, saying the couple were

"thirsty for power"

.

By failing to create a coalition, the head of government must put aside his hopes of an exit from the legal imbroglio in which he is plunged

The first to take the tangent is Avigdor Liberman and his Russian-speaking party, Israel Beytenou. The ex-eminence grise of "Bibi" is at the origin of the crisis which has lasted for two years. The latest is Gideon Saar, a Likud baron. He founded his own team before the election, with the ambition of putting an end to Bibi. Naftali Bennett, former adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu and successively Minister of Economy, Education and Defense also broke the bridges. All are on the political spectrum to the right of the Prime Minister.

By failing to create a coalition, the head of government must put aside his hopes of getting out of the legal imbroglio in which he is plunged.

Some of his political allies had pledged to change the law to give him immunity.

His trial for corruption, fraud and breach of trust, which he denies, has gained momentum and leaves him no respite.

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The tragedy of Mount Méron, marked Thursday evening by the death of 45 people including children during a religious pilgrimage, finally, tarnished its image. The gathering of more than 100,000 people was allowed by authorities despite warnings about security conditions and restrictions on public demonstrations due to the pandemic. His government bowed to pressure from ultra-Orthodox parties. In April, the great annual Druze pilgrimage was canceled, Palestinians were denied access to Damascus Gate Square in Jerusalem at the start of Ramadan and the holy fire ceremony of the Christian Orthodox Passover on Saturday. celebrated in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher took place in an old town cordoned off by the police to avoid large gatherings.

Yaïr Lapid will not have it easy. He too must win the favor of Naftali Bennett and Arab parties to secure a majority in his favor in the Knesset. He too proposes a system of rotating the post of prime minister with Naftali Bennett. If the country remains ungovernable, Parliament is expected to be dissolved in about a month and the Israelis will return to the polls. If so, Benjamin Netanyahu would remain in place as interim prime minister. And it is likely that he would return to the campaign.

Source: lefigaro

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