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Israel’s president says he will task opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with forming a new coalition government.<\/b><\/p>\n
Isaac Herzog has been holding talks with political parties after neither Eisenkot’s bloc nor that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a majority in Israel’s parliament, known as the Knesset, following last week’s election.<\/p>\n
Eisenkot will now have 28 days to try to form a new administration, with a potential 14-day extension.<\/p>\n
“Now is the time to form a national emergency government. I will do everything to ensure we are worthy,” the former military chief wrote on X.<\/p>\n
No political party in Israel has ever won an outright majority, meaning all governments have been coalitions.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party and its far-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies won 53 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, while Eisenkot’s centrist Yashar party and three other Jewish opposition parties in his bloc won 48.<\/p>\n
Two Arab-led alliances, the United Arab List and the Joint List, together won an unprecedented 19 seats following a surge in turnout among Arab voters.<\/p>\n
That positions them as potential kingmakers. However, all but one of the Jewish parties pledged before the polls not to work with them to form a government.<\/p>\n
Herzog said that, after consulting all parties during the week, he would give Eisenkot the first chance to form a government.<\/p>\n
A statement from the president’s office said he had informed both Eisenkot and Netanyahu of the decision.<\/p>\n
Following consultations with delegations from the incoming Knesset members, Eisenkot received 67 recommendations for the premiership and Netanyahu 46, the statement said.<\/p>\n
The president has broad discretion to pick someone they believe has the best chance of building a coalition and does not have to choose the leader of the party with the most seats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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