Israeli Election Polls Show Tight Race, No Clear Majority
Translated & summarized from Arab48 by baba
A new Israeli election poll by Channel 13 shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc winning 51 seats and the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot winning 50 seats, neither achieving a majority. "Yashar" leads with 20 seats, followed by Likud with 18. A separate Channel 14 poll projected Netanyahu's bloc winning 62 seats, a significant divergence.
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- New poll shows Netanyahu's bloc with 51 seats, opposition with 50, preventing a majority government.
- Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashar" party leads with 20 seats in the Channel 13 poll.
- Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party is projected to win 18 seats in the Channel 13 poll.
- A separate Channel 14 poll projects a much larger victory for Netanyahu's bloc with 62 seats.
- Arab lists are projected to collectively win 15 seats according to the Channel 13 poll.
A new election poll released Wednesday evening indicates that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc would secure 51 seats in the Knesset, while the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot would gain 50 seats. Neither bloc would achieve a majority to form a government independently.
The poll, published by Israel's Channel 13 less than two weeks before the elections, shows Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashar" party leading with 20 seats, followed by Netanyahu's Likud party with 18 seats. Naftali Bennett's "Bayahad" party is projected to receive 12 seats.
Avigdor Lieberman's "Yisrael Beiteinu" and Yair Golan's "Democrats" are each expected to win 9 seats, as is the Joint List. The United List is projected to get 6 seats, bringing the parliamentary representation for the two Arab lists to 15 seats.
Among parties in the current coalition, Itamar Ben-Gvir's "Otzma Yehudit" and "United Torah Judaism" are each expected to win 8 seats. "Shas" is projected to get 7 seats, and Bezalel Smotrich and Moshe Feiglin's "Religious Zionism-Tzomet" is expected to secure 6 seats.
Two additional lists, "Amcha Israel" led by Ofer Winter and "Reservists and Economic" led by Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelicha, are projected to each win 4 seats if they surpass the electoral threshold of 3.25%.
In a contrasting poll by Channel 14, Netanyahu's bloc was projected to win 62 seats against 44 for the opposition, with the two Arab lists securing 14 seats. This poll showed Likud leading with 29 seats, followed by "Yashar" with 20 seats.
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