Under the consultations, launched yesterday evening, each party will propose President Herzeg a candidate who can be trusted task for forming the government.
According to traditional practice, the president chooses the candidate he estimates has the best chance of securing the parliamentary majority.
This person is not necessarily the party leader, who has won more seats in parliament.
The ultra-orthodox Alliance of the Torah’s United Judaism proposed no candidate for prime minister, while the far-right party Otzma Yehudić (Hebrew Empire) supported incumbent Benjamin Netanyah to obtain the mandate of forming government.
The liberal leftist party, the Democrats backed former army chief Gadi Eisenkot, considered Netanyah’s main challenger. In his favor, the Arab party éam.
In the 27 October parliamentary elections, Netanyah’s right-wing é Likudé party won the largest number of seats in Knesset, the 120-member parliament, securing 27 mandates.
In second place was the party of the Eisencot centre’s ‘%shar, with 21 mandates.
However, neither the Netanyah bloc nor the opposition managed to secure the 61 mandates needed for the parliamentary majority, making it difficult to create the new government.
Herzog is expected to hold consultations with representatives of Likkud ‘%shar this evening.
Eisenkos is expected to receive support from the largest number of parties to secure the mandate, but forming a coalition with Arab parties to achieve the parliamentary majority may be difficult.
Arab parties almost doubled their representation in parliament, providing a total of 19 mandates.
This result led to Netanyah’s ikkud ‘%s’ accusing him of electoral manipulation, claims later rejected by election authorities.
In his first video message, published since elections yesterday evening, Netanyahu again criticised Arab parties, warning of the danger of creating a government that depends on extremist Islam and Islamist parties.
Source Layer: RTKLive