Posted on 06/01/2021 10:27:29 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
As Yesh Atid party leader MK Yair Lapid was reportedly set to formally announce Tuesday that he had managed to put together a coalition after marathon overnight talks, the legal adviser to the president pushed back against a claim by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party that the nascent government could not have Yamina’s Naftali Bennett serve as its first premier.
The legal adviser to the office of President Reuven Rivlin, Udit Corinaldi-Sirkis, said in a statement that there was no legal reason why the MK entrusted with forming the coalition should not serve as alternate prime minister during the first part of the potential government’s term.
Negotiations that began Monday and went on till late into the night reportedly saw further progress between Yesh Atid and Yamina, as well as with Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope, which also joined in some of the talks at the Kfar Maccabiah youth village near Ramat Gan. Lapid was reportedly preparing to tell Rivlin later Tuesday that he has mustered a majority, which he would then seek to have approved in a Knesset vote next week.
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No Hope, oops, I mean, New Hope has joined with the rest of the Star Wars fans who are about to be in charge (for now) of Israel. This will last about a year, maybe two.
Where are the 61 seats coming from? The three parties mentioned - Yesh Alid, Yamina, and New Hope - only have 30 seats among then.
I think, (trying to follow this) the seats come from: the right (Yamina, Yisrael Beytenu, New Hope), center (Yesh Atid, Blue and White) and left (Labor, Meretz), and from the Arab Ra’am party. Ra’am has four MK seats, and that pushes the total over 60.
It strikes me as the kind of alliance united by a single goal; get Netenyahu out of office and as a defendant before a jury. Once that happens I don’t see it lasting very long.
Never Bebe's. It's their only goal.
I don’t think it is a done deal yet. He still needs a deal with the Islamist Party. If he gives them too much, he risks losing support from the right. If he gives too little, the Islamists may tell them to pound sound, forcing yet another election.
Once it’s certain that Netanyahu is out of power, people will come out of the woodwork all over the political right in Israel and dogpile on top of him to make sure he doesn’t ever reenter politics. He’s made a lot of enemies over the years, the most bitter among them are probably the ones who trusted him.
But your understanding is inside out. After being a political force for 35 years, the "Never Bibi's (not Bebe) are the equivalent of a "Never Clinton" or a "Never Bush".
Benjamin Netanyahu is the epicenter of Israel's political swamp,
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