Posted on 03/23/2015 6:40:08 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Kulanu representatives on Monday met with President Reuven Rivlin, recommending that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be tasked with forming the next coalition. The nomination gave Netanyahu an absolute majority of 61 votes in his favor and prompted Rivlin to announce that the prime minister would be tasked with forming the next government.
Netanyahu later added an endorsement from Yisrael Beytenu giving him a total of 67 nominations.
Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon told President Rivlin that his party was neither Left nor Right, but socially-oriented with a central focus on the human being.
"We nominate Netanyahu and the broader the base of the coalition the better it will be for all of us," Kahlon said.
Following a meeting with Yisrael Beytenu, Rivlin said that there was no doubt that he would pick Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who now has 67 nominations, to form the next government.
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