The future government will “care for all citizens of Israel” and “protect democracy”, said Knesset Speaker Beni Ganz earlier.
Leader of the Likud party and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that an emergency cabinet, necessary to fight the coronavirus, will be established after the last elections, as he promised. The Prime Minister posted the relevant record on Twitter after the signing of an agreement on the establishment of a government coalition with the Cahol Lavan party by the Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament) of Israel’s 23rd Knesset, Beni Gantz.
“I promised an extraordinary national government to the State of Israel, which will act to save the lives and well-being of Israeli citizens. I will do anything for you citizens of Israel,” Netanyahu wrote.
Earlier that day Ganz said on Twitter that the agreement signed with Likud would allow Israel to avoid a third consecutive and fourth consecutive elections. He promised that the future government would “fight the Coronavirus,” “take care of all Israeli citizens” and “protect democracy.
Netanyahu and Ganz signed an agreement on Monday night to form a government coalition following the 2 March elections. According to the Israeli state radio Kan, according to the agreement, Netanyahu will be the prime minister for the first year and a half, after which, as part of the rotation, the cabinet will move to Ganz. According to the law, until the evening of May 7, a majority of Knesset members (at least 61 out of 120) must recommend a candidate to President Reuven Rivlin, who will then have 14 days to establish the cabinet. If he still fails to do so, the country will go to the fourth consecutive elections.
Following the previous vote on the composition of Parliament on September 17, 2019, Netanyahu and Ganz failed to form a government within 28 days, after which Reuven Rivlin gave 21 days to the entire Knesset, but it also failed. Following the failure to form a government in 28 days and an additional two weeks after the first election in 2019, Netanyahu passed a law through Parliament on April 9, 2010, to dissolve him and conduct the first ever Jewish state re-election on September 17.