According to AFP, the candidate for the post of Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, informed President Isaac Herzog that he managed to form the next government.

“We did it,” Netanyahu wrote in Hebrew minutes before the 11:59 p.m. local time (9:59 p.m. GMT) deadline to announce the formation of a future government.

The Israeli president confirmed to AFP that Netanyahu had called Herzog to inform him of the news in advance.

After the election and under Israeli rules, Netanyahu had until Dec. 11 to announce his government, but he asked for a 14-day extension, the maximum allowed by law.

However, President Herzog gave him only ten days, and the Israeli press expected an announcement later that day, although the exact composition of the future government had not yet been finalized.

However, the known partners in the government, which should be, according to analysts, the most right-wing in the history of Israel: the two ultra-Orthodox parties Shass and United Torah Judaism (UJT), as well as the three far-right formations “Religious Zionism” of Bezalel Smotrych, Jewish Power of Itamar Ben Gwira and Noam Avi Maozah.

In recent weeks, Netanyahu’s Likud party has signed agreements with far-right parties that provide for the distribution of certain positions, such as that of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, responsibility for the occupied West Bank colonies to Bezalel Smotrich, or the portfolio of Shass leader Ari Deri.

However, Israeli parliamentarians still have to vote in second and third readings on bills that would allow Deri to serve as a minister after being convicted of tax fraud and Ben Gvir to extend his future ministerial powers over the Israel Police.