A lot of people are worried, and a lot of other people are hoping and suspecting, that Benjamin Netanyahu will turn his back on the right wing and his bloc parties and form a government instead with Yesh Atid and Benny Gantz -a unity government of sorts. President Herzog had said early in the election season he would push for a unity government, and with Netanyahus history of excluding real right wing parties and forming governments with center and even left parties instead, it is not unrealistic to consider that this may happen.
Personally I do not think it will. I would be surprised if it does.
This election season Netanyahu worked with the parties in his bloc very naturally and formed a tight bond between the parties, far more than ever before. Additionally they fought together in the Opposition for the past year and a half and were in the trenches together.
While it is possible that he might do so, I really dont expect him to turn his back on them now and make a government with the other parties that he has been fighting against for the past year and a half (and more if you count the fighting throughout the last few election cycles)
I think we will see a pretty quickly formed right wing government with all his bloc partners. If any of them start to make trouble later with unreasonable demands of legislation or whatnot then Netanyahu might try to replace them with Gantz and/or Lapid, but not now
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