POLÍTICA
Israel enfrenta batalha política após acusações contra Netanyahu
November 22, 2019 - O primeiro ministro israelita Benjamin Netanyahu foi indiciado numa série de casos de corrupção na quinta-feira, lançando o sistema político paralisado de Israel em maior incerteza e ameaçando os seus 10 anos no poder.
He rejected calls to resign, angrily accusing prosecutors of staging “an attempted coup.”
The first-ever charges against a sitting Israeli prime minister capped a three-year investigation, with Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit indicting Netanyahu for fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes.
The indictment does not require the 70-year-old Netanyahu to resign, but it significantly weakens him at a time when Israel’s political parties appear to be limping toward a third election in under a year.
An ashen-faced Netanyahu appeared on national TV late Thursday, claiming he was the victim of a grand conspiracy by police and prosecutors who had intimidated key witnesses into testifying against him.