Election reform might be the least of President Reuven Rivlin's worries right now
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, here we go again.
By the time you read this, you will know who President Reuven Rivlin tasked with the mandate to form a coalition government. As I write this piece, the first political parties are still streaming into Rivlin’s Jerusalem residence, one at a time, to inform him of their pick for who should get first crack at breaking Israel’s two-year political impasse caused by four indecisive elections.
This time, at least, Rivlin mercifully consolidated the process, confining the ritual meetings to one day instead of the customary two.
So at press time, we were faced with two major unknowns: Who would get the nod? And more importantly, could the person who gets the nod shape a viable coalition of 61 MKs or more? For a fortnight since the March 23 election, Israel’s best political minds have agonized over all of the possible political configurations, and no one can figure out how anyone could get to 61.
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