Benny Gantz’s centrist party, which is participating in Israel’s war council, has proposed a bill to dissolve the parliament. However, it is unclear whether it has sufficient support in the Knesset to trigger early elections. Earlier this month, Gantz issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding a plan for the ‘day after’ in Gaza by June 8. He threatened to leave the governing coalition if such a plan was not presented.
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The National Unity Party submitted a bill to dissolve the 25th Knesset (…) This follows the demand of party leader Benny Gantz to proceed with a broad agreement in anticipation of elections before October, a year after the massacre,’ the announcement stated. The former Defense Minister of Israel agreed to cooperate with Netanyahu’s government after Hamas attacked Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, which triggered the Gaza war. However, Gantz’s centrist bloc dissolved in March when Gideon Sa’ar, a former Justice Minister from Netanyahu’s Likud party, ended their cooperation and formed a separate, center-right group in parliament. Gantz’s National Unity Party alone does not have enough votes to topple the government. Likud responded to Gantz’s move with a statement emphasizing that Israel needed unity and that dissolving the government would harm the war effort.
