Israel's Netanyahu Weighs Move to Cancel September Elections
- Development comes weeks after PM failed to form a government
- Netanyahu denies he has reached out to opposition about unity
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will weigh a motion to cancel national elections in September, a gambit that would give him time to focus on his legal defense in several looming corruption cases.
The speaker of Israel’s parliament is examining the legality of nixing the vote if Netanyahu can form a government with two-thirds of the country’s 120 elected parliamentarians, Jonathan Orich, a spokesman for Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said Tuesday night.