With its extreme right allies, the chief of Likoud won 64 of the 120 seats of the Knesset.
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Benyamin Netanyahu can now prepare a solid right -wing government, with a majority of 64 seats out of 120. Thursday evening November 3, two days after the Israeli legislative elections, the Prime Minister, Yaïr Lapid, put an end to A stretched suspense, by congratulating their winner. He completes the shortest mandate in the history of the country, promising an effective transition.
In June 2021, Mr. Netanyahu had deserted, without consenting to a passing ceremony, this office of Jerusalem which he had occupied fifteen years, more than any other. Thursday, he did not even comment on their telephone conversation.
The final statement of votes underlines the ultimately irreconcilable divisions of the “coalition of change” of Mr. Lapid. Among these seven parties, two fail to enter the Knesset, remaining on the threshold of 3.25 % of the vote, a few thousand votes. The Kamil Fuchs polls specialist sees it “all the idiocy” of this block. By associating themselves in common lists, as did Mr. Netanyahu and his family, they could have obtained 60 seats out of 120. New elections were then almost certain.
difficult negotiations
Endless Elegy of the Israeli left: the Arab nationalists of Balad and the Zionist left of Meretz are therefore erased. Meretz can die. Created in 1992, this party had breathed a new wind in the election won by Yitzhak Rabin, who would soon sign the first Oslo peace agreement.
Over five elections since 2019, Meretz, a vestige of the “peace camp”, was reduced to soliciting the pity of the voters, imploring them not to let it disappear. On Thursday, his chef, Zehava Galon, regretted that the Labor Party refused in September to merge with them. Heirs of the founders of the State, the last left party of Israel, the Labor remains just above the threshold (four seats, the minimum).
Thursday evening, their president, Merav Michaeli, accused Mr. Lapid of having “wanted to erase” his party. With 24 seats for his centrist training, Yesh Atid, he imposes himself in duration as the main opposition force, acting a new displacement of Israeli political balances, always more right.
According to his entourage, Mr. Netanyahu intends to form a government at a charge, from November 15, after the swearing in by parliamentarians. He did not wait to launch these negotiations that the president, Isaac Herzog, gives him mission formally, in the next two weeks. They promise to be difficult. Its party, the Likoud (32 seats), has no majority within its block of allies.
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