이스라엘 베네트 총리 연정 출범…네타냐후 12년 집권 마감
For the first time in 12 years,... Israel has a new prime minister.
This after a new coalition finally unseated longtime leader Benjamin Netanyahu in a tight parliamentary vote.
Lee Seung-jae reports.
For the first time in more than a decade,... a new prime minister was sworn into office in Israel on Sunday,... as Naftali Bennett and his new coalition unseated Benjamin Netanyahu.
"I, Naftali Bennett, the son of Jim Yaakov may he rest in peace, and Myrna Leah, may she live a long life, I am committing as prime minister, as future alternate prime minister, to be faithful to the state of Israel and its laws. To faithfully fulfill my job as prime minister and as alternate prime minister and fulfill the decisions of the Knesset."
Bennett was elected prime minister in Israel's parliament in a razor-tight 60 to 59 vote,... with one lawmaker abstaining.
His election was made possible thanks to a band of unlikely allies coming together from different political spectrums - eight different parties with one shared belief that Netanyahu had to go.
The 71-year-old former prime minister had one last speech before handing power over to Bennett,... making his future intentions clear.
"We'll be back, soon. We'll be back."
Netanyahu was first elected prime minister in the late 1990s,... and again in 2009.
Over the last 12 years,... he allowed the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank,... frustrating Palestinian aspirations for statehood.
While he recently won praise for his effective fight against the COVID-19 pandemic,... he's also facing corruption charges, including bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
In the face of those allegations,... his support has waned over the past two years,... as he struggled to stay in power through repeated elections,... which were all mostly inconclusive.
Under the coalition agreement,... Bennett,.... who was ironically Netanyahu's former chief of staff,... will serve for two years before passing the torch to former finance minister and head of the centrist Yesh Atid party,... Yair Lapid for the latter half of the four-year-term.
Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.
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2021-06-14, 07:00 (KST)
