New Poll Shows Gadi Eisenkot's Party Ahead of Netanyahu's Likud
Translated & summarized from Cursorinfo by baba
A new poll by Israel's Channel 16 shows Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashar!" party leading Benjamin Netanyahu's "Likud" party with 21 seats to 18, one week before the Knesset elections. The opposition bloc is projected to win 52 seats, while the coalition bloc is predicted to secure only 50, falling short of the 61 needed to form a government. "Behad," led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, is in third place with 15 seats. The outcome of coalition negotiations after the election will determine who can form a government.
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- Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashar!" party leads Benjamin Netanyahu's "Likud" with 21 seats to 18 in a new poll.
- The opposition bloc is projected to win 52 seats, while the coalition bloc is predicted to secure only 50.
- 61 seats are required to form a government in the Knesset.
- "Behad," led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, is in third place with 15 seats.
- The poll was released by Channel 16 one week before the Knesset elections.
- The ability to form a government remains uncertain and depends on post-election coalition negotiations.
A new poll released Tuesday by Channel 16 shows Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashar!" party leading Benjamin Netanyahu's "Likud" party with 21 seats to 18, just one week before the Knesset elections. The opposition bloc is projected to win 52 seats, while the coalition bloc is predicted to secure only 50, falling short of the 61 seats needed to form a government. "Behad," led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, is in third place with 15 seats. Other parties in the poll include "Democrats" and "Otzma Yehudit" with nine seats each, the United Arab list with nine seats, "Yahadut HaTorah" and "Yisrael Beiteinu" with seven seats each, and "Shas" and "Religious Zionism-Zeut" with six seats each. The Arab party "Ra'am" is projected to win five seats. "Amcha Israel," led by Ofer Winter, and a reservists and economic list associated with Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelicha are each expected to gain four seats, potentially influencing coalition negotiations. Compared to the previous week's poll, "Yashar!" and "Likud" maintained their seat counts, while "Behad" gained two seats and the United Arab list gained one. "Shas" and "Yahadut HaTorah" each lost one seat, and the list associated with Hendel and Zelicha dropped from five to four seats. The coalition bloc lost two seats and the opposition gained two in this latest comparison. This is not the first poll from Channel 16 to show Eisenkot ahead of Netanyahu; a previous poll had "Yashar!" with 23 seats and "Likud" with 19. Despite "Yashar!" being the largest party in this poll, the ability to form a government remains uncertain and will depend on post-election coalition negotiations.
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