Likud and Religious Zionism Sign Surplus Vote Agreement Ahead of Elections
Translated & summarized from Channel 13 by baba
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- Likud and Religious Zionism signed a surplus vote agreement.
- The deal was signed three weeks before the upcoming elections.
- This leaves Ofer Winter's party with one remaining option.
- The option is to sign a similar agreement with Otzma Yehudit.
With exactly three weeks remaining until the elections, the Likud party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Religious Zionism party, headed by Bezalel Smotrich, have signed their first surplus vote agreement within the coalition bloc. This agreement allows parties to pool their excess votes to gain additional Knesset seats.
Following this development, the only remaining option for Ofer Winter, chairman of Am Echad Yisrael, is to sign a similar agreement with Otzma Yehudit, led by Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The signing of surplus vote agreements is a common practice in Israeli politics, aiming to maximize the representation of parties within the same political bloc.
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