“I have just informed President Reuven Rivlin that I have succeeded in forming the new government,” Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist party Yesh Atid, tweeted. “This government will work for all citizens of Israel, those who voted for it and those who did not. I will do everything to unify Israeli society,” he continues.
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The announcement came just under half an hour after the expiration of the mandate, Lapid informed Rivlin that they joined the new Blue White government of Benny Gantz, Yamina of Naftali Bennett, “Israel Our House” by Avigdor Lieberman, “New Hope “by Gideon Saar, Labor, the leftist Meretz and the Arab Islamist party Raam. According to the agreements, Naftali Bennett will be prime minister for the first two years while then it will be the turn of Lapid himself.
“The new government will unite Israeli society” – “The new government will do everything possible to unite all the components of Israeli society”: centrist leader Yair Lapid assured the Head of State Reuven Rivlin. “Our commitment – he added – is to put ourselves at the service of all citizens of Israel, including those who do not support this government”. With a reference to the strong attacks from the nationalist right, Lapid assured: “We are committed to respecting those who oppose us”. Lapid then informed Rivlin that he intends to submit the new government for approval by the Knesset as soon as possible.
Now we need the numbers of the Knesset – At least 61 seats out of 120 will be needed. A delicate step that could also reserve unwelcome surprises, given that there are individual deputies from the coalition parties – especially Yamina – who said they disagreed. The launch of the new government took place at the end of a day that registered theelection of Isaac Herzog new president of Israel. At the first ballot, the Knesset designated him by voting for him with 87 preferences. The current president of the Jewish Agency – scion of the Ashkenazi Zionist aristocracy who founded Israel – has beaten the challenger Miriam Peretz, an outsider who came from a diametrically opposite world, the Sephardi world of immigrants from Arab countries, but at the same time the other side of the country. Herzog – for his friends Bougie – crowned his long rise to power: he is the son of a father Chaim Herzog, who was the sixth president of Israel before him. Surprisingly defeated by Netanyahu in the 2015 general elections: “I intend to be the president of everyone, to listen to all the voices – he said in the speech of acceptance of the appointment after receiving the congratulations of the premier himself – in an attempt to trace the lines of convergence both within our society and with our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora “.
Netanyahu leaves control of the country after 12 years – After twelve years in power, Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the office of prime minister in Israel while a corruption trial is still pending on him. The architect of Bibi’s sunset is his former ally, Naftali Bennet. Right-wing party leader Yamina led to the emergence of the executive of broad agreements. The appeal launched by Netanyahu was useless, and until the end he tried to persuade the former ally not to turn his back on him. “He betrayed the Israeli right,” the prime minister said, urging nationalists not to establish what he called a “left government” which he believes would be “a danger to Israel’s security, and to the future of the state” . Netanyahu’s Likud was the party that got the most votes in the March elections and President Reuven Rivlin had initially entrusted Bibi with the task of forming the government, but he was unable to cement a coalition. The president then entrusted the task to the opponent Lapid who carried out the negotiations, interrupted during the 11 days of conflict between Tel Aviv and Hamas. Netanyahu is desperate to stay in power while on trial and has often used his office as a stage to garner support and lash out at police, prosecutors and the media. He aimed at a failure of negotiations to return to new elections.
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