Israel has had five elections in just three years.
It’s this sort of thing that has often led dictators and mere authoritarians to sneer at democracy because it’s so unstable and messy.
Moreover, this involved a candidate for Prime Minister who is currently facing trial on charges of “corruption,” former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
And he’s won – again – and unlike the previous four elections it seems this one was decisive:
A resounding victory for opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his bloc of right-wing, far-right and religious parties, a result that would end a political crisis that has seen five general elections held in under four years.
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Israel has been rocked by political turmoil since a Netanyahu-led government fell apart in late 2018. Two rounds of elections, in April 2019 and September 2019, failed to yield a winner, and a short-lived unity government formed after the…
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