The final pre-election poll for the upcoming race for 22nd Knesset was released, and the results show that the right-wing is still two seats short of a minimum majority of 61 seats. This being the case, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would not be able to establish a coalition government without the backing of Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beitenu party.
According to the poll, which was conducted by Midgam Institute on Friday, released on News12, if elections for 22nd was held today, the following would be the results.
Likud 32
Blue & White 32
Joint Arab List 10
Yisrael Beitenu 8
Yahadut Hatorah 8
Shas 7
Democratic Camp 6
Labor/Gesher 5
Otzma Yehudit 4
Blocs
Right-wing/chareidi 59
Left-wing/Arabs 53
Yisrael Beitenu 8
Who do you think will be the prime minister after elections?
56% Netanyahu
21% Gantz
5% another Likud representative
2% Lieberman
16% don’t know
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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4 Responses
I don’t see how this adds up to 59 without Lieberman
yemina was left out in the above poll numbers. if yemina has 10 plus 4 from otzma total is 61. ???
You only have 112 seats
Perhaps because the total numbers add up to 112 …