As new legislative elections are looming, the Israeli press draws two possible outcomes, hoped for or feared according to the newspapers: yet another blockage of parliamentary democracy or a hard-fought victory for Benyamin Netanyahu. Thanks to the support of a Jewish supremacist and anti-democratic cartel, the president of the Likud (nationalist right) could regain the post of Prime Minister, as the religious nationalist daily reminds us greedily Makor Rishon.
The one nicknamed “Bibi” is currently surrounded by multiple legal proceedings. The supremacist list of Itamar Ben-Gvir recalled that it “will demand the passage of a retroactive and ‘French-style’ law” – that is to say preventing any legal action against a Prime Minister in office -, underlines this Monday October 31 Yossi Verter in Ha’Aretz.
Towards an upheaval of balances
Compiled by the left-liberal daily Ha’Aretz in another article, the polls suggest an upheaval in the balance within the Knesset, the Parliament of Israel. The centrist party Yesh Atid (“There is a future”) Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yair Lapid, seems assured of a historic score – which would allow him to win 25 or even 27 seats out of 120, against 17 previously. He would thus follow the Likud, credited with 30 seats.
But the theoretical allies of Lapid, the Avoda (Labour Party) and the Meretz (Zionist left), representatives of the center left, risk not crossing the electoral threshold and therefore disappearing from the Knesset. A shame for the two parties, which were the historic founders and the quasi-hegemonic rulers of