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Urgent : Israeli president assigns Netanyahu to form next government

Xinhua, March 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

Israel's President Reuven Rivlin formally assigned on Wednesday evening incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form the upcoming government following last Tuesday's elections results.

After his right-wing Likud party received 30 (out of 120) seats in the Knesset (parliament), 67 parliament members from the right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties recommended Netanyahu to the president as the candidate with the best odds of forming a coalition. Endit