Another difficult process begins to try to form a government in Israel: which minorities are the keys to making it happen

The President of Israel, Revuén Rivlin, received this wednesday the official results of the March 23 elections and the timetable for forming a government in the country have been activated to avoid a fifth election.

“The main consideration which will guide me in the selection of a candidate to entrust the formation of a government is the possibility that it ensures the confidence of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament)”said the president upon receipt of the results.

Rivlin will start next Monday on consultations with political parties and wednesday nominate the candidate with the most potential supporters, which you will have to explore complicated coalitions in the absence of parliamentary majorities to end the country’s political blockade.

“I have not yet completed the seven years of my mandate as president, and yet this is the fifth time that I have received the election results, and the fourth time in less than two yearsHe said at the start of his speech at the presidential residence in Jerusalem.

After the last revision of the electoral commission, the official results remain unchanged, without majorities of 61 deputies out of 120 in Parliament.

Netanyahu and his associates won 52 seats and the anti-prime minister bloc 57. In addition, the right-handed Yamina, with 7, and the Islamist Raam, with 4For the moment, they have not promised their support to any candidate.

Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud is the most voted party with 30 MPs, followed by Yair Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid with 17, who is leading the so-called change bloc, but does not garner enough support from heterogeneous formations in the bloc to run for prime minister.

Guideón Saar, of right-wing Nueva Esperanza, on Tuesday called on Lapid to “put his ego aside” and allow ultra-nationalist Naftalí Benet, from Yamina, to run for government, in order to add the support that a majority would give to this bloc.

A total of 4,420,677 Israelis, out of more than 6.4 million eligible to vote, went to the polls, which lowest turnout of the four electoral rounds, with 67.2%.

“The political crisis that is shaking us is damaging and weakening our democracy to some extent, but it is not going to defeat us. We are stronger than that. Israeli society is stronger than it “Rivlin assured.

(With information from EFE)

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