Explained: Why Israel is headed to its 5th election in 3 years, and what now | Explained News,The Indian Express

Israel’s four previous elections between 2019 and 2021 were basically plebiscites on whether Netanyahu could rule while facing trial on serious corruption charges.

Israel’s fragile and short-lived coalition government announced on Monday that it would submit a bill next week to dissolve Parliament, setting the stage for a fifth election in three years, and the possible return to power of the country’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel’s four previous elections between 2019 and 2021 were basically plebiscites on whether Netanyahu could rule while facing trial on serious corruption charges. Netanyahu, who was indicted in November 2019, has denied the allegations.

Once the bill is passed, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, leader of the right-wing political alliance Yamina, will step down, and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, leader of the liberal centrist Yesh Atid party, will become interim PM until a new government is formed, according to the ruling coalition’s power-sharing agreement. Elections will take place in the fall, according to commentators.

The ideologically divided coalition — the most diverse in Israel’s history — lost its thin majority in April following a defection by a lawmaker of Bennett’s Yamina. The government faced its biggest setback on June 6, after the opposition, along with rebel coalition members, helped defeat a bill intended to renew legal protections for Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

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