The centrist Yair Lapid will replace Naftali Bennet as acting prime minister, who will leave politics after the failure of the grand coalition that defeated Benjamin Netanyahu
The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, approved its dissolution on Thursday and has called elections for next November 1. It will be the fifth election in just three years, highlighting the political blockade situation in which Israel lives.
The prime minister, nationalist Naftali Bennet, announced on Wednesday that he is leaving politics after verifying the failure of the large governing coalition he has led over the past 12 months, which ousted Benjamin Netanyahu from power. The coalition, made up of eight parties ranging from the nationalist right to the pacifist left, through the center and even an Arab political force, lost its absolute parliamentary majority two months ago.
Centrist Yair Lapid, foreign minister and leader of the party with the most seats in the coalition, will take the reins as acting prime minister, under the governing pact that established a rotating executive head.
Source: La Verdad
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