Rivlin is set to name the country’s next PM on April 7, handing the person the mandate to form a ruling coalition.

The Knesset (Israel Parliament) member holding the mandate will have 42 days to assemble a coalition and present a government platform, which must be confirmed by a vote of confidence.

While a government must hold at least 61 seats in the 120-seat Knesset to enjoy the majority there, a minority government supported from the outside by allied parties is also a hypothetical possibility.

In the wake of the March 21 elections, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and its allies have 52 votes in the Knesset, denied a clear pathway to a coalition.

Netanyahu’s rival Yair Lapid, chair of the opposition Yesh Atid faction, has 17 votes for his own party and can likely rely on recommendations from heads of Labor, Yisrael Beiteinu and Meretz parties, sitting respectively at seven, seven and six seats for a total of 37 recommendation, as per their own remarks.

The number could be propelled further all the way to 57 with support from the other parties from the anti-Netanyahu bloc, including Lapid’s ally-turned-rival Defense Minister and Alternate PM Benny Gantz and former Netanyahu rival within Likud Gideon Sa’ar, now chief of the New Hope party.

The disposition puts a lot of sway in the hands of Yamina party chief Naftali Bennett and predominantly Arab Joint List breakaway faction Ra’am head Mansour Abbas, with their respective seven and four mandates.