The centrist can remain in power if Benyamin Netanyahu does not obtain a majority at the end of the legislative elections of November 1.
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For four months, Yaïr Lapid has been a suspended Prime Minister. Without a majority, he manages current affairs to the legislative elections of 1 er November. No survey gives it winner. His reign, the shortest in the history of Israel, is currently only a parenthesis in a bottomless political crisis, which has already produced four elections since April 2019.
However, Mr. Lapid continues to repeat his entourage that he does not have to defeat: he just has to prevent Benyamin Netanyahu one last time from winning. He would then prove that the majority of the “bibi king” has definitively passed out. For or against Mr. Netanyahu: Israel has embarked on a trench war for four years, while his trial for corruption has been continuing since May 2020.
In June 2021, Mr. Lapid managed to break this balance, by bringing together a coalition of eight parties. Their experience turned short. The coalition shattered in the summer of 2022. Naftali Bennett, the head of a small, far -right religious formation, to whom Mr. Lapid had left the head of the government for a time to take care of Foreign Affairs, S ‘ is removed from political life, burned, bitter.
At the head of the centrist party Yesh Atid (“There is a future”), which he founded in 2012, Mr. Lapid is an admirer of Emmanuel Macron, to whom he visited twice from a year. He wants to be a guardian of the democratic order facing “the dark, illiberal” forces that he said, according to him, Mr. Netanyahu and his “block” of ultraorthodox and Jewish supremacist allies. He considers their promise to reform the judicial institution as “an attack, carried out with the ambition of dismantling it and destroying it”. He sees it as a way for the supporters of the colonies to break the dike which limits their expansion and, for the allies of Mr. Netanyahu, to put an end to his trial.
embody a form of “normality”
Since the summer, this former journalist and television star has embezzled to embody a form of “normality” in power. His advisor, the expert in surveys Mark Mellman, linked to the American Democratic Party, convinced him that a majority of Israelis does not wish to see their Prime Minister each evening on the screen. They want competent, effective and peaceful power. Including act. Mr. Lapid only launched his campaign two weeks before the election.
His assessment is not thin. To right -wing Israelis, concerned with security, he asserted the military operation carried out in Gaza, in August, against the Palestinian Islamic jihad. He made a large case of the agreement on the maritime border with Lebanon, signed Thursday, which will allow Israel to exploit the gas field of Karish. He said that all the heads of the security bodies approved this “deal”. Mr. Netanyahu sees it as an abandonment of sovereignty and a demonstration of weakness against the Lebanese Hezbollah. But he no longer suggests that he will bury him if he returns to power. Mr. Lapid finally welcomes to have moderated rampant inflation and to have ended a teachers’ strike.
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