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Likud says it won’t prevent another MK from forming a coalition if Netanyahu can’t
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePresident Reuven Rivlin asks the ruling Likud party if it will return to him the mandate to form a government if its candidate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tasked with assembling a coalition and fails to do so.
“The answer is yes,” Likud Minister Yariv Levin says.
After failing to form a government after elections in April, Netanyahu pushed through a vote to dissolve the Knesset and call a snap poll rather than have the mandate return to Rivlin. This marked the first time in Israel’s history that elections failed to produce a new government.
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