TIL Desk/World/Jerusalem/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again failed to form a government by the midnight deadline, putting his political career in jeopardy and prolonging the country’s political stalemate that has seen voters return to the polls four times in less than two years.
The mandate given by President Reuven Rivlin to Netanyahu to form a government expired on Tuesday at midnight with no breakthrough in coalition talks. It is for the third time in two years that Netanyahu, 71, has failed to form a government.
He had been trying for the past 28 days to build a coalition after the fourth inconclusive general election in two years. Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party is by far the largest on Israel’s fractured political scene. Likud had won 30 seats in the general election in March, but Netanyahu could not muster enough coalition partners to command a majority of at least 61 seats in the 120-member Knesset, the Israeli parliament.
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