Bibi On The Brink

[Cow Poke]

Results uncertain, Netanyahu

We should know soon.

Exit polls are split, with Channel 12 giving Blue and White a four-seat advantage over Likud; others have two parties neck-and-neck; both leaders declare victory

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[Cow Poke]

And it's weird...

While none of the exit polls carried out during Israel's general election Tuesday showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party in the lead, that does not mean he won't be able to form the next government.

Either party will have to secure the support of other smaller parties to form a governing majority in the 120-seat parliament.

Two exit polls showed Netanyahu on track to form Israel's next government, with support from the religious right. A third poll showed results too close to call.

Israeli Channel 12 showed Benny Gantz's Blue and White party virtually neck and neck with Likud, with the religious-right coalition taking 60 seats and Gantz's coalition taking the same, with support of the Arab parties.

Kan Channel 11 showed the religious-right coalition with 64 seats, versus a Gantz bloc with 56. And Channel 13 projected the religious-right wing coalition with 66 seats, 12 more than a Gantz coalition.

No party ever ends up with an outright majority after elections, and these results are just preliminary. Both men may end up with a chance to form a government, and the smaller parties will play a key role in coalition-building.

However it is extremely unlikely that the Arab parties would become full coalition partners in any government.

[rogue06]

Source: GANTZ VS. NETANYAHU: BOTH CLAIM VICTORY AMID SPLIT EXIT POLLS

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In general the turnout was low but the fact that it was especially low among Arabs has some pundits predicting bad news for Gantz.

[Cow Poke]

So, it sounds like they have a similar "our people didn't cooperate with the polling" factor.

[Cow Poke]

I didn't realize that GLBTQXYZ was an issue in this election...

[Cow Poke]

Hmmmm

[Mountain Man]

Exit polling is notoriously unreliable. Remember Democrats celebrating Hillary's victory early on election day only to be reduced to tears when the actual votes were counted.

[rogue06]

As of 3 AM here and with 97% of the vote counted it is tied.

[Sparko]

[Cow Poke]

According to Vox

[Mountain Man]

Source: Israel's Netanyahu wins reelection with parliamentary majority - tally

JERUSALEM, April 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a clear path to reelection on Wednesday, with religious-rightist parties set to hand him a parliamentary majority despite a close contest against his main centrist challenger, a vote tally showed.

With more than 97 percent of votes counted, Netanyahu's conservative Likud party looked likely to muster enough support to control 65 of the Knesset's 120 seats and be named to head the next coalition government - a record fifth term as premier.

The close and often vitriolic contest was widely seen in Israel as a referendum on Netanyahu's character and record in the face of corruption allegations. He faces possible indictment in three graft cases, and has denied wrongdoing in all of them.

Despite that, Netanyahu gained four seats compared to his outgoing coalition government, according to a spreadsheet published by the Central Elections Committee of parties that won enough votes to enter the next parliament.

http://news.trust.org/item/20190410080103-h7ruo

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[mossrose]

I wonder if there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and screams of "not my Prime Minister"........

[Cow Poke]

I wonder if there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and screams of "not my Prime Minister"........

Speaking of which, I see your TrueDough guy is sinking in the polls.

[mossrose]

Speaking of which, I see your TrueDough guy is sinking in the polls.

Yes. Praying the momentum continues until the election in October.

[Cow Poke]

Israel Election: Gantz Concedes Defeat, Lapid Vows to Turn Knesset Into Battlefield

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has all but secured a 5th term on Wednesday morning, after more than 95 percent of the votes gave the right-wing bloc a 10-seat lead over the left.

Netanyahu's Likud tied with Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan party with 35 seats each. Both leaders made victory speeches after the exit polls, vowing to be "everyone's prime minister."

But almost all right-wing parties have said they would recommend to the president that Netanyahu form the next ruling coalition. Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked's Hayamin Hehadash, as well as the far-right Zehut party led by Moshe Feiglin and Orly Levi-Abekasis' Gesher did not make it past the electoral threshold.

In the right-wing bloc, the parties that made it into the Knesset are Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Yisrael Beiteinu, Right-wing Union and Kulanu. In the center-left bloc, the parties that made it into the Knesset are Kahol Lavan, Hadash-Ta'al, Labor, Meretz and United Arab List-Balad.