Netanyahu vs Gantz: Israel heads to unprecedented third election in a year on March 2
- The next election will be held in the shadow of a corruption indictment handed down against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel will hold new parliamentary elections March 2, an unprecedented third poll in less than a year, as lawmakers failed to break free from a political stalemate gripping the nation.
Parliament passed a law setting the election date and dissolving itself early Thursday, hours past its midnight deadline.
It’s unclear whether another election will bring any change to the current political stalemate.
“Nobody knows if it will produce any results that will be able to produce a government,” said Gideon Rahat, a political science professor at the Hebrew University.
Chances of a last-minute agreement to form a coalition government and avert another costly and unprecedented round of elections had grown ever slimmer as the deadline entered its last remaining hours.