Rivlin to make announcement once signatures of MKs backing Netanyahu verified

The President’s Residence says Rivlin will make an announcement once the signatures of the 72 MKs who are recommending Prime Minister Netanyhau form the next government are verified.

“We are in the midst of an unprecedented period, during which the country has undergone three consecutive rounds of elections in the last year and has, in addition, faced the coronavirus along with the rest of the world,” the president will say, according to a statement from his office.

He will also say: “In accordance with Section 10(b) of Basic Law: The Government (2001), I must comply within two days with the request of the members of Knesset as expressed in the letter I received… The task of forming a government will be assigned to MK Netanyahu at the end of this process in a letter to the Speaker of the Knesset, MK Gantz.”