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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBenjamin Netanyahu won Israel's election. Here's what comes next.
The Israeli prime minister appears to have won reelection. Now he has to beat legal charges.https://www.vox.com/world/2019/4/10/18302233/israel-election-results-benjamin-netanyahu-2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to hold on to power, winning what will be a record fifth term in office despite having faced a bruising reelection fight. The preliminary results from Israels Tuesday election have Netanyahus right-wing Likud party getting 35 seats out of a total 120 seats in the Knesset (Israels parliament). While Likud didnt win an outright majority of seats, thats typical in Israeli elections.
Party leaders generally become prime ministers by cobbling together a parliamentary majority with the help of smaller parties. In this case, a group of smaller right-wing parties expected to back Netanyahu seems to have captured 65 seats, enough to give him a 10 seat majority over the rival center-left bloc (the exact numbers could change as the remaining two percent of votes are tallied).
Netanyahu is now set to be the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history even longer than David Ben-Gurion, the countrys first prime minister often described as Israels George Washington. And the ramifications of his fifth term could be enormous, both for the health of Israeli democracy and the fate of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The prime minister is facing a pending criminal indictment on bribery and fraud charges by Israels attorney general thats likely to come down later this year. And now that Netanyahu has all but secured a victory, its possible his coalition could pass legislation protecting him from prosecution while in office, in essence letting him get away with his alleged crimes for the time being.
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Benjamin Netanyahu won Israel's election. Here's what comes next. (Original Post)
Celerity
Apr 2019
OP
"It's possible his coalition could pass legislation protecting him from prosecution while in office"
Tommy_Carcetti
Apr 2019
#2
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)1. Imagine if we had as many fractional parties
here. The backroom deals and winks and nods.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)2. "It's possible his coalition could pass legislation protecting him from prosecution while in office"
Gee, why does this seem like a precursor of certain things?