A poll released at the end of last week by TNS shows, for a first time, that the right-wing bloc has lost its majority and would be unable to form a coalition government. The poll was taken after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced plans to indict Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a number of cases against him.
The reason PM Netanyahu cannot form a government according to the poll is that a few right-wing parties do not pass the minimum threshold to enter Knesset; including Yachad, Yisrael Beitenu, and Zehut, thereby wasting a considerable number of right-wing votes. The Gesher party of Orly Abekasis-Levy also fails to pass the minimum threshold to enter Knesset.
Blue and white 37
Likud 29
Arab parties 12
New Right 7
Yahadut Hatorah 7
Meretz 6
Shas 6
Labor 6
Kulanu 5
Bayit Yehudi 5
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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PM, Don’t get discouraged by these leftists, just start protecting the chareidim from the High Court’s anti Chareidim policies.
Israeli polling is notoriously meaningless due to the media’s left wing, Ashkenazi, secular bias (people often try to tell the pollster what the pollster wants to here), and the difficulty of dealing with a system with proportional representation and a large number of parties. Also remember the “Blue and white” is also a right-center party. The left consists solely of Labor, Meretz and perhaps the Arab parties (if they can be considered part of the system at all). The only real question is whether “Likud” or “Blue and white” can form a coalition without each other. The Israeli left (socialists) which usually got 2/3 of the seats in the 1950s and 1960s, is a minisule faction with as little chance of forming the next government as the hareidim have *actually the religious parties are stronger than the “left”).