2021 Election

Yamina leader rebuffs rotating-premiership deal with Yair Lapid, says he will not betray his convictions.

As of Tuesday morning, no candidate has 61 mandates. Joint Arab List, Ra'am, and New Hope decide not to recommend any candidate. President Reuven Rivlin tells Yamina representatives that he might hand the decision over to the Knesset.

Yesh Atid leader says Netanyahu's conduct is "dangerous," calls on Yamina leader to join a 'wide government' to deliver change to Israelis.

In address ahead of consultations with party representatives, President Reuven Rivlin says his priority is to "give the task of forming the government to the Knesset member with the highest chance of succeeding in forming a government that will be backed by the new Knesset."

United Torah Judaism party to argue that the Right and the Haredim voted to appoint Rivlin president, and he must now act in the interests of those who put him there.

Israel's political leaders are scheduled to meet individually with President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem on Monday and endorse a candidate for the position of prime minister. If efforts to form a coalition fail, Israel will be plunged into its fifth elections in two years.

As much as Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas wants to mark an achievement for the Arab Israeli sector, he cannot ignore public opinion, which will note tolerate supporting a government that includes right-wing extremists.

If Yair Lapid prevents Naftali Bennett from forming the next coalition government, the Yamina party leader will cut his losses and join up with Netanyahu.

In an interview with Turkey's Anadolu Agency, Ra'am party head Mansour Abbas says, "Our options are open, and we are engaged in negotiations with the Right and the Left."

PM says gridlock must be broken by forming "stable right-wing government" according to the will of the voters.