Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled to cobble together parliamentary sup...
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled to cobble together parliamentary support for a coalition on Wednesday, just hours ahead of a deadline to form a new government or face the possible end of his decade of combative leadership of Israel.
Netanyahu’s plans for a fifth term following an election in April were cast into doubt by a presumed ally, rightist ex-defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, who has conditioned sitting in government with ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties on amendments to their military draft exemptions. Political sources said Netanyahu was simultaneously seeking agreement with the leaders of parties on voting to dissolve parliament and setting a mid-September date for a new election.
Political commentator Chemi Shalev, writing in the left-wing Haaretz daily, said a last-minute agreement was still possible and Netanyahu would still be the favorite to win a new election.But he said Netanyahu’s critics now find themselves fantasizing about a world without him. The prime minister, first elected in the late 1990s, has been in power for the last decade.
Without the support of Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party, which has five Knesset seats, Netanyahu cannot put together a majority government of right-wing and religious factions.
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