Israel new elections Sep 17th

6 months to a year.

How are they appointed?

They may not even be able to forma govā€™t at all so weā€™ll get to have another election as soon as they can organize it.

Except for those 3 elections quite a few years back when they stupidly tried a directly elected Prime Minister.

Prime Minster are appointed by the President, its not an elected office.
The Prime Minster is only elected as a MP.

thatā€™s basically how it works in the end. They broker their votes to get the desired outcome.

having an election for PM would defeat the whole point of a Parliamentary system.

It turned out to be a disaster in Israel, which is why they went back to the old system.

The old system is largely a walking disaster as well as it creates inherent instability in the govā€™t.

So where do we stand here?

to be honest non of our concern that a small socialist Mediterranean country has an election

Mehā€¦Iā€™m a bit of a political junkie and am intrigued by these things. And there are posters here who know substantially more than me about Israeli politics. I like hearing their insight.

Good point well made i suppose the fact we are all here shows we are all kinda political junkies

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No question about it brother. Iā€™ve spent a lot of time (probably more than I should have) on this forum and the last, over the past 15 years. And Iā€™ve learned quite a great deal about political issues that were not in my wheelhouse already. Iā€™ve got an itch, and debating politics scratches it. And without this place, Iā€™d end up debating my wife all of the time, and that never ends well. :wink:

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Womp, womp.

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1174339783579115521?s=21

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Well that is not a good sign for him. So do you know what this means for the formation of a government there?

Not really, Iā€™m just glad this clown wonā€™t be involved in our politics anymore.

Well except that we give a massive amount of aid to that country.

So who is running the country is of utmost importance to the United States.

Allan

So is it a sure thing that he is out of the government there?