Naftali Unsuccessful In Sustaining Coalition Government In Israel
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Roshan Amiri
- . June 29, 2022
- . Update: June 30, 2022 1:04 pm
Israel–All is not well in Israel as by midnight today, the coalition government is set to dissolve, plunging the country into more instability and uncertainty. In less than four years, this would be the fifth time that the government is forced to go in for re-elections.
Naftali Bennett has not been able to keep the coalition government together. He had to make a move to dissolve the parliament last week; nothing could prevent that from happening. Bennett will have to step down, giving limited caretaker government powers to the Israel’s center-left foreign minister, Yair Lapid.
The nod and approval have come through from the Knesset government. The exact election date is yet to be determined; they are dangling between October 25 or November 01. But as things would have it, the campaign has already become dominated by the possible comeback of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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