Marc Israel Sellem / POOL
News commentator Dr. Avishai Ben-Haim is convinced that in the fifth election, if there are any, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will succeed in reaching a decision and winning.
” Election 5? Bibi will win. The campaign this time was responsible and stately. For the next campaign, he cannot help but be overwhelmed by the real story: the persecution of the prime minister, “Ben-Haim claimed.
He said the Likud’s next campaign would deal with Netanyahu’s trial, which begins in about two weeks, “The public will hear the details, the injustice and the elite’s attempt to humiliate the prime minister, and will come out with tears in their eyes to defend him and vote.”
Truth results:
Senior ultra-Orthodox figures who spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the past day have told him that they are interested in a government backed by Mansour Abbas of the RAAM party, and that they have no problem if this scenario materializes.
The Prime Minister vehemently refuses to disclose his position. He does not rule out cooperation with RAAM in the Knesset, but has not yet addressed the possibility of forming a government with their support.
According to the report here 11, there is a riot in the Likud following the loss of about 300,000 votes. Netanyahu was furious with MK Shlomo Kara’i, the deputy chairman of the election committee who was in charge of the Likud polling stations.
In the previous elections held in March 2020, the Likud won 36 seats. Compared to the 30 seats the party won in the 24th Knesset elections held this week.
The Central Election Commission this evening (Thursday) published the almost final results of the elections to the 24th Knesset. The turnout in the election was 67.4%.
The Likud with 30 seats, Yesh Atid – 17, Shas – 9, Blue and White – 8, Right – 7, Labor – 7, Torah Judaism – 7, Yisrael Beiteinu – 7, Religious Zionism – 6, The Joint List – 6, Tikva New – 6, March – 6, RAAM – 4.
The bloc of parties supporting Benjamin Netanyahu, including the right-wing faction, enjoys only 59 seats. Netanyahu’s opposition bloc – the Left, Arab, Saar and Lieberman parties enjoy 61 seats.
The excess mandate given to new and right-wing hope in the distribution of votes, which swayed throughout part of the counting hours, remained with “New Hope.”
The chairman of the Labor Party, MK Merav Michaeli, and the chairman of Yesh Atid, MK Yair Lapid, met tonight to discuss possible collaborations to form a “Coalition for Change and Change of Netanyahu’s Rule.” It was decided that further talks would take place later.
It is estimated that Yair Lapid will be able to get the most recommenders from the president, and it is possible that next week he will receive from President Rivlin the mandate to form the government. The Likud is considering the possibility of forming a right-wing minority government that will rely on the avoidance of the Ra’am party, but Bennett and Smutrich oppose such a coalition.
New Tikva party chairman Gideon Saar commented on the election results, saying: “With the publication of the final results of the election, it is clear that Netanyahu does not have a majority to form a government under his leadership.
Central Election Commission CEO Orly Adas said upon the publication of the final results: “This is one of the happiest days of my life. “There are amazing employees here who have made tremendous efforts, soul players of the public service, a General Staff patrol that cannot be ignored and what we have done here all along.”