At a time many feel the current coalition government is all but done for, opposition leader MK Yitzchak Herzog is looking ahead, calling on the Yesh Atid and The Movement parties to agree to enter into a coalition with Labor.
At the start of a faction meeting on Monday 2 Kislev, Herzog stated “Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is jeopardizing the nation’s basic and fundamental interests with his decisions and policies…” Herzog blames the Netanyahu administration for failing in the areas of the economy, social issues, security and peace-making efforts.
“It is not too late” Herzog (15 seats) told his colleagues from The Movement (6) and Yesh Atid (19), as he tries to persuade them to join forces to bring an alternative government to the nation. Should such a union occur, it would result in a coalition of 40 seats, a far cry from the minimum required, 61. Hence, Yesh Atid and The Movement can break from the coalition and topple the government, but the trio coalition would be insufficient to form a new coalition. If Yahadut Hatorah (7) enters with Shas (11), there would be a total of 58, closer but still lacking.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The entire political pyramid structure in Israel is set up to topple whenever there is turmoil. Another coalition will not look much different hopefully without the two Ls.*
*Livni & Lapid
shas and utj with lapid,
ur dreaming
“If Yahadut Hatorah (7) enters with Shas (11), there would be a total of 58, closer but still lacking.”
Ridiculous.
UTJ will more likely sell treif meat than join ,and even for (less scrupulous) shas this would be filing chapter 11
To make it work it would require:
1. The Hareidi parties to join (possible but only in return for abolishing conscription)
2. The Arab parties to join (an anathema to most of the center and even left of center parties), though perhaps the Arab parties would agree to support the government in return for an end to conscription (and the discrimination against non-veterans).
3. Lapid to give up his conservative economic policies which mesh well with Likud and Bayit Yehudi, but not with the Israeli (socialist) left.