Israeli legislators have voted to dissolve parliament and set the country on the path to a second election within months, after right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to put together a ruling coalition before a midnight deadline.
In April, Mr Netanyahu appeared set for a fifth term as Prime Minister after his Likud Party won thirty-five of the one hundred and twenty seats in the parliament, even though he faces possible indictment in three corruption cases.
He has denied any wrongdoing and accused his opponents of mounting a witch-hunt. But despite weeks of negotiations he failed to overcome divisions between secular and religious allies and in the early hours of today, parliament voted by seventy-four to forty-five to dissolve itself.
The unprecedented vote was prompted by Netanyahu’s failure to reach a coalition deal even though his party and its allies won a majority in the April ninth election.
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