This is a critical hour for the coalition negotiations. If Lapid doesn’t notify the president by 11:00 that he has succeeded in forming a government, the Knesset Speaker (Bibi’s stooge) won’t have to put the confidence vote on the agenda today. Giving Bibi more time for pressure>
Lapid still has until midnight when his mandate expires and after that another 21 days in which any MK can form a government if they get 61 signatures (there are on paper 61 MKs supporting the Bennett-Lapid government) but if they don’t declare now, they lose critical momentum.>
The main sticking points remain Shaked’s demand to sit on the judicial appointments committee (instead of Michaeli whose been promised it in the agreement with Labor) and some of Ra’am’s demands which Yamina and New Hope are opposed to. These are the also the main vulnerabilities
The more time passes before the agreements are signed and the confidence vote is set, the more time Netanyahu has to pressure especially Shaked and other right-wing MKs of the new government which can’t come in to being without them.
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