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sabbat hunter

(6,888 posts)
Wed Oct 23, 2019, 11:18 AM Oct 2019

Netanyahu fails again to form new Israeli government, opening door for political rival

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-government-intl/index.html

What are the chances that Gentz will be able to form a coalition?
Blue/White have 33 mandates
Joint list 13
Labor/Gesher 6
Democratic union 5
That is a total of 57.
They would need either Likud (sans bibi) or Yisrael Beiteinu support to form a coalition.

They MIGHT be able to form a shaky minority government with 57 seats, with YB giving support to the coalition without officially joining the coalition.




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Netanyahu fails again to form new Israeli government, opening door for political rival (Original Post) sabbat hunter Oct 2019 OP
YB has enough seats to make the coalition work Mosby Oct 2019 #1
I think that sabbat hunter Oct 2019 #3
Well, mapol Nov 2019 #4
He Is The Canary In The Coal Mine Me. Oct 2019 #2

Mosby

(17,287 posts)
1. YB has enough seats to make the coalition work
Wed Oct 23, 2019, 11:25 AM
Oct 2019

They just have to talk liberman into sitting with the arab parties. Maybe they could give him some private assurances or something.

A third election will accomplish nothing, the results of the second were almost a mirror image of the first.

There apparently is a way for the Knesset itself to vote in a new PM with a majority. I think that might be what happens.


sabbat hunter

(6,888 posts)
3. I think that
Wed Oct 23, 2019, 08:47 PM
Oct 2019

what will happen is a minority government with YB supporting the government without actually joining it.

mapol

(91 posts)
4. Well,
Mon Nov 11, 2019, 09:50 AM
Nov 2019

If the Knesset itself does vote in a new PM with a new majority, let's hope that Israel votes somebody into office who's better and less stiff-necked than Netanyahu.

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