{"id":54287,"date":"2019-12-12T08:42:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54287"},"modified":"2019-12-12T08:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:46:53","slug":"israel-heads-to-unprecedented-third-election-in-a-year-after-parliament-dissolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54287","title":{"rendered":"Israel Heads To Unprecedented Third Election In A Year After Parliament Dissolved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JERUSALEM, Dec 12 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; The Israeli parliament was dissolved on Wednesday night, after its two main parties failed to form a government, ahead of a midnight deadline, signalling an unprecedented third election within a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The election will be held in Mar, 2020. The Knesset is expected to vote overnight, to decide the exact date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Knesset was automatically dissolved, after Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his centrist rival, Benny Gantz, failed to form a coalition government, before the midnight deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following neck-to-neck results in the national election in Sept, both Netanyahu&#8217;s right-wing Likud party and Gantz&#8217;s centrist Blue and White party, have been unable to form a coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last election was called, after a similar political deadlock in April&#8217;s election.NNN-MA&#8217;AN  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, Dec 12 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; The Israeli parliament was dissolved on Wednesday night, after its two main parties failed to form a government, ahead of a midnight deadline, signalling an unprecedented third election within a year. The election will be held in Mar, 2020. The Knesset is expected to vote overnight, to decide the exact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}