News from Al-Madinah: Benjamin Netanyahu, the “Likud” leader and former Israeli prime minister, will begin preliminary discussions and meetings with candidates for his coalition government on Sunday.
According to news outlets and official sources, Netanyahu plans to meet with the leaders of the Shas movement, Aria Deri, the Agudat Israel party, Yitzhak Goldkinov, the Dael Haturah party, Moshe Gavni, and the Religious Zionism Party in Tslil Smotoic today.
On the other side, Netanyahu made the decision to meet with Itadar bin Ghafir, the head of the “Jewish Power” party, on Tuesday, while Yerif Lvin, a Knesset member, is anticipated to handle negotiations with the “Kinda” party chief.
Knowing that Intar bin Ghaffir had previously stated he would ask for his party the internal security portfolio with the expansion of the powers authorised to the minister, Netanyahu will attempt to ascertain the demands of these parties in these initial contacts in order to enter the government of his chairmanship.
The Central Elections Committee is scheduled to release the official election results till the ninth of this month, and Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, will receive them on Wednesday.
As Herzog receives the official results, he is also expected to start consultations with the heads of different parties, to assign Knesset Netanyahu this task, while giving him a 28 -day deadline, as a first deadline, to form the government.
Although the “Likud” parties, led by Netanyahu and its allies from the religious Zionist and Haraidim parties, got 64 seats out of 120 in the Knesset, which facilitates the process of forming the coalition, sources in “Likud” confirmed that negotiations to form the new government will be thorny, especially in light of the demands The nominated parties’ extensive and contentious requests to join the Netanyahu administration.
New Arab.
In order to create the government, Netanyahu will start talking to the “Israeli” party’s leaders today.
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