Israel's government closer to collapse after lawmaker quits [View all]
Source: Reuters
Israel's government closer to collapse after lawmaker quits
Mon, June 13, 2022, 1:15 PM
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's fragile governing coalition appeared closer to collapse on Monday after reports that a lawmaker from Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's right-wing party said he was "no longer part" of the government.
The development came as Bennett's ideologically diverse coalition, which includes hard right, liberal and Arab parties, has staggered ever closer to implosion, a year after it ended Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12-year rule.
"I have informed the prime minister that based on the current situation, I am no longer part of the coalition," Nir Orbach of the hard right Yamina party said in a statement published by several Israeli media outlets.
No comment was immediately available from Orbach, whose statement said "extremist and anti-Zionist" members of parliament had taken the coalition "in problematic directions".
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