Barely two months after the election, the Israeli parliament approved the government of winner Benjamin Netanyahu. 63 of the 120 MPs voted in a vote of confidence for the new government on Thursday. It is the most right-wing government Israel has ever had. Thousands protested in front of the Knesset with Pride and Israeli flags.
Former Prime Minister Netanyahu is back in power after a year and a half. In Israel’s history, no one has been in office longer than the 73-year-old. It is already the sixth government he is forming. Amir Ochana of Netanyahu’s right-wing conservative Likud party was elected as the new Speaker of Parliament. Then the swearing-in of the individual coalition members began.
Accompanied by angry taunts from the opposition, Netanyahu presented to the plenum the main goals for the next four years. Everything will be done “so that Iran does not destroy us with an atomic bomb”. The prime minister said his government would also work on rapprochement agreements with other Arab states.
The new government has 64 of the 120 seats in parliament. Half of them belong to Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, the other half to the far-right Religious-Zionist Alliance and two strictly religious parties. Netanyahu’s camp had won a clear majority in the November 1 parliamentary elections. It was the fifth election in three and a half years.
resistance from parts of the population
In view of racist and homophobic statements by future coalition partners, resistance is already arising from various layers of the population. Protests came from representatives of the IT industry, entrepreneurs, the Air Force and doctors. They see democracy in danger.
Source: Krone
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