Reuven Rivlin, the Knesset Speaker, says he believes elections will be moved ahead of the November 2013 date.
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said Sunday that he believes that the current Knesset may not complete its tenure due to the ongoing social protests in Israel.
Rivlin said that he believes elections will be earlier than the expected date in November of 2013.
“I do not believe we will reach November 2013,” Rivlin said, “since politics can create crises” which lead to expedited elections.
On Saturday evening, some 300,000 demonstrators took to the streets in protest of high cost of living in Israel. The protest organizers – a loosely organized group of young Israelis stunned by the mass response to their complaints – have called for a million-person march in 50 cities across the country on Sept. 3.
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