Israel: Netanyahu bloc leads with more than half of votes counted
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The partial results are likely to change, and several exit polls showed the camps neck-and-neck without a majority.

Turnout for the election - Israel’s first since Hamas’ 7 October 2023 attacks - hit over 77%, according to Israel’s Central Elections Committee.

Exit polls in Israel’s key legislative election on Tuesday suggested no clear victor, with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and main rival Gadi Eisenkot falling short of a majority.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    12 hours ago

    The Arab parties’ 18 seats is the biggest game changer. The Netanyahu block will obviously never partner with them

    It’s more that the Arab Parties would be deeply reluctant to partner with them. But that hardly matters when Gadi Eisenkot is IDF to his bones, and fully in favor of ethnic cleansing of Arabs.

    The biggest problem you’ve got is Itamar Ben-Gvir picking up and changing sides, on the condition he gets to keep massacring school children

    • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      He’s salivating at the thought

      Really, I think smaller parties jumping bloc is a lot more likely than a deal with the Arab parties. Or new elections, of course, which I think trigger automatically if they let the clock run out