Gantz and Netanyahu have been negotiating a unity deal but another election is possible amid deadlock. FMTNews Benjamin
April 12, 2020 9:48 PMJERUSALEM: Israel’s president on Sunday denied a request from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival Benny Gantz for more time to try to form a government, deepening the country’s political deadlock.
Gantz, head of the centrist Blue and White party, and Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud, have been negotiating a power-sharing deal for an “emergency government” to tackle the coronavirus crisis. Rivlin had proposed a unity government in which Netanyahu, in power consecutively for the past 11 years, and Gantz, a former armed forces chief, would take turns as prime minister.In a statement, the president’s spokesman said that if Netanyahu and Gantz did not sign a deal by Tuesday, and their respective levels of support in parliament did not change by then, neither would get his immediate nod to try to build a coalition.
A parliamentary nominee would then have 14 days to form a government. Failure to do so would automatically trigger a new election, as was the case in the run-up to last month’s poll.
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