Afterwards, every party will be allotted nine minutes to address the plenum. At the end of the debate, the lawmakers will elect a new Knesset speaker and vote on the proposed government. Then, the new prime minister and his alternate, along with their cabinet, will be sworn in.
On Tuesday, Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin announced that the swearing-in ceremony will take place on Sunday. The new government must make the coalition agreements public 24 hours before it is approved by the Knesset; since Saturday is a rest day in Israel, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett will have to publicize the agreements on Friday, giving Netanyahu s supporters more time to pressure members of the new coalition to vote against it.
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9th June 2021
What happened: Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin confirmed yesterday that MKs will convene on Sunday, 13 June, to vote on the new government and swear in Naftali Bennett as the next prime minister of Israel.
Yamina MK Nir Orbach announced yesterday that he has decided to vote in favour of the new government. In a long Facebook post he explained, “I am not taking this path with happiness or enthusiasm, I am taking it precisely because it is unclear … an exemplary society can include rightists and leftists in one home. An exemplary society should shun marginal forces. In this exemplary society, religious Zionism … should have a central place.”
Party leaders in the emerging coalition: This combination of pictures created on June 2, 2021 shows (Top (L to R) Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Yamina leader Naftali Bennett, New Hope leader Gideon Sa ar, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman, (bottom L to R) Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, Ra am leader Mansour Abbas, and Labour leader Merav Michaeli. (Photos by AFP)
Sunday will see the Knesset vote on establishing the 36th government of Israel, an eight-party coalition that will see prime minister-designate Naftali Bennett of the Yamina party rotate the premiership with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid.
If confirmed, the unlikely alliance of right-wing, left-wing, centrist and Islamist parties will remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power after 12 years, to be replaced by Bennett, and, two years later, Lapid.
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