What does a ruling majority mean? we can have a majority of Republicans in the house and senate and still not get the conservative things we want. I know I’m missing something.
Israel is a unicameral parliament. So a ruling majority gets to do whatever it wants until the next election must be held or members of the ruling coalition defect and join the opposition on a vote of no confidence and the body dissolves. The Yisrael Beiteinu party was part of Bibi’s coalition but defected triggering the several elections in the past year or two.
As I understand it (others please help) in a parliamentary system with many parties, the parties each tend to vote as groups. (Dems do it here, Republicans not so much. See Romney, Collins, Murkowski). I think its quite formalized.
So if one party, like Likud, doesn’t get a majority by itself, it asks another party to join in, so that they have a majority together. IIRC, there is an ultra-orthodox party that has quite a bit of power disproportionate to the number of seats they hold because they often ally with Likud to form a coalition. Of course, there are agreements and concessions, so the parties to the coalition know what to expect from the new government.
Israeli Govt is really really weird(And very corrupt) honestly dont know how things work over there..its all about having the majority in the Knessett after that not sure, I guess how they work with BiBi
Israel has a pure proportional representative parliament. The tendency in this system is for there to be multiple parties with no single party able to grab a majority of seats by itself. So the biggest party in the case Likud joins up with the smaller parties to form a coalition.