In a 45-minute meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz once again seem to have failed to unify the government.
According to the Times of Israel, at the time of this writing, the two have only eight days to form a new government. To form a new government one of the lawmakers needs to garner the support of at least 61 of the 120-member Knesset – Israel’s unicameral national legislature.
If both parties fail to do so, Israel will be forced into another election. The next election would mark the third election in one year, a first in the nation’s history.
The Times of Israel reports that both Netanyahu and Gantz are blaming each other for the failure to form a government.
Following the Tuesday meeting, Netanyahu’s Likud party released a statement noting that Gantz’s party is simply refusing to form a unity government.
“The prime minister offered to creatively anchor in law the [premiership] rotation. In the face of far-reaching concessions, Blue and White continues to refuse to form a unity government over the veto imposed by [Blue and White No. 2 Yair] Lapid,” the statement read.
“So Lapid is dragging us to elections in order to ensure that Netanyahu remains in power,” it added.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the Likud said on Sunday that their party had agreed…
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