After the expiration of the mandate of Blue&White Chairman Benny Gantz at midnight, Wednesday, on Thursday morning President Reuven Rivlin announced that the mandate to form the next coalition government will go to the Knesset for 21 days.
“None of the candidates has the support of the majority of Knesset members in a way that allows them to gain the confidence of the Knesset and establish a government, not in the form of a unity government either,” Rivlin wrote Gantz in his role as Speaker of the Knesset. “Out of my commitment to put together a government as quickly as possible, I do not see a possibility of this happening, and so I pass the process to the Knesset. I hope that it will be possible for Knesset members to form a majority in a way that brings about a government as quickly as possible, and avoid a fourth election.”
