The formation of new government in Israel is getting complicated

A source close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the possibility of his success in forming a government is almost non-existent.

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation quoted the source as saying that the strength of Netanyahu’s “Likud” party has greatly decreased during the past two weeks.

Meanwhile, an exchange of accusations occurred within the party due to the loss in the vote on the composition of the Parliamentary Organizing Committee.

For his part, Netanyahu renewed his call for adopting direct elections for prime minister without dissolving the Knesset in order to get out of the political impasse.

Netanyahu was tasked by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin earlier this April with forming the new government, after inconclusive elections were the fourth in two years.

The results of the elections that took place on March 23 did not yield a clear winner, and the political spectrum in Israel remained generally divided into two parts, one loyal to Netanyahu and the other seeking to overthrow him.

Netanyahu’s party led the election results by winning 30 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, followed by the Yesh Atid party led by Yair Lapid, which ruled out an alliance with Likud, and won 17 seats.

And in third place came the religious conservative “Shas” party, with nine seats.