Technical tie between Gantz and Netanyahu with more than 60% escrutadoNetanyahu is done with the victory in the elections of IsraelNetanyahu saves his post temporarily at the expense of new elections
The electoral commission published the final data of the elections in Israel, which confirmed a political stalemate in the chamber. is 33 seats out of 120 are for Blue and White , two more than Likud, that has lost the 28,000 votes with regard to the elections of April, but none of the two parties most voted has the ability to form an alliance with their allied forces that exceed the barrier of the 61 deputies. The president, Reuven Rivlin , starting tomorrow the consultations for designating a candidate manager to unlock the situation and both Benny Gantz , leader of Blue and White, as Benjamin Netanyahu , they aspire to be the elect.
Until the situation is unlocked Netanyahu exerted of prime minister, as it did during the last decade, and received in Jerusalem, the special envoy of the White House for the Middle East and one of the promoters of the so-called Agreement of the Century, Jason Greenblat , an orthodox jew, 53 years old, will leave this position soon and will be replaced by Avi Berkowitz , also jewish and advisor of Jared Kushner . It was planned that the plan is filed after the elections, but taking into account the uncertainty left by the results remains an open question whether the publication of a document that has been prepared behind the backs of the palestinians.
In campaign, Netanyahu made promises such as the annexation of the Jordan Valley, a step, burying definitively the solution of two States, one israeli and the other palestinian, in which he deals with the international community since decades ago. According to the prime minister, this annexation is an option that contemplates the plan of Trump. Despite the apparent good chemistry between the U.s. president and the prime minister, the defeat at the polls seems to have cooled, according to the impression of several local analysts.
coalition Government
Faced with the impossibility of adding a sufficient majority to political forces allied, both Blue and White as the Likud have put on the table the option of forming a great national unity government, but the doubt lies in the person that corresponds to direct it. Gantz spoke loud and clear, as the candidate most voted, and showed your support to this great alliance to form a government “broad, liberal, and led by me” . Netanyahu, who in just two weeks, must appear before the attorney general because of their scandals of corruption, reminded the government rotary agreed between 1984 and 1988 by Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir, a formula that could unblock the current situation if Gantz takes a step back and agree to an adversary surrounded by the corruption.
The leader of Blue and White has based his success in the polls on the promise of change and the fight against corruption, and has suggested on several occasions the possibility that the Likud party to present another candidate different from Netanyahu in order to facilitate the agreement. Faced with this possibility, the minister of Regional Cooperation, Tzahi Hanegbi , he stated to Radio Kan that a government of unity with another member of the party that is not Netanyahu it is impossible and “immoral”.
