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"With Benny Gantz's attitude, one of a Jewish majority and unilateral annexation – there's no one to recommend," he says, adding that the slate will recommend Odeh himself.
An announcement of final yet unofficial results of Monday's election will be made on Thursday evening, the Central Elections Committee announced on Wednesday. There has been no change in the distribution of Knesset seats after 99.99 percent of the votes have been vounted, the Elections Committee says. Here are the parties projected to enter the Knesset, with 100 percent of the vote counted ■ Build your own coalition: Click the parties and try to get to 61 seats ■ Who's running: Full lists This keeps the bloc of parties loyal to Netanyahu at 58 seats. ET, March 2, 2020 Israel's third election in 11 months had a 71.0% turnout. “The wound is painful. He called the projected result for the Joint List “the greatest parliamentary achievement [for Arab parties] since the first Knesset. In response, Gantz tweeted: "Bibi, drink a glass of water, wait for the final results and promise to respect them." Avigdor Lieberman will recommend that Benny Gantz form the next government when parties elected meet this week with President Reuven Rivlin for consultations, people close to the Yisrael Beiteinu chairman said. That compares with a figure in the September 2019 election of 69.4% and the April 2019 election of 67.9%Through most of the day, turnout looked on track to be the highest in any Israeli election since 1999. But even if the final results bear out these projections, Netanyahu will still need to find partners to form a coalition government with a majority in the 120-seat parliament.The most likely parties to partner with him are the hard-line right-wing Yamina party and the two religious parties, Shas and UTJ. "Gantz lied to his voters and is trying to steal this election," the premier charged. We won’t budge an inch from what we promised,” he said.As polls closed in Israel’s general election Monday and three Israeli television polls projected that a coalition of Israel’s right-wing parties led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were on track to secure 60 seats in the 120-seat parliament, Netanyahu tweeted the word “thanks,” along with a red heart emoji.A few minutes later, he posted a photo of himself, along with his wife Sara, his two sons Yair and Avner, and more than dozen young members of his campaign team, with a simple message: “a great victory for Israel.”Israel’s right-wing parties are claiming victory after all three main exit polls projected a bloc led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- made up of his Likud, the hardline right-wing Yamina, and the two religious parties -- is on track to secure 60 seats in the 120-seat parliament.A statement from Netanyahu’s Likud said the Prime Minister had spoken Monday evening with all party leaders in what the statement called the "national bloc" and they had “agreed to form a strong national government for Israel soon.”It is not clear at this stage from where Netanyahu will take the seat, or seats, he would need to get a majority in parliament.Back in April’s election, the same bloc of parties secured 60 seats in the Knesset but was still unable to form a government.Initial Israeli TV exit polls projected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party to be the winners in this election. A party needs to cross a threshold of 3.25% of the national vote to secure representation.Likud's election headquarters in Tel Aviv is filling up fast with excited supporters, who see this as an absolute victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Another Likud supporter, Hila Kiron, said that the mood felt drastically different to the last two elections.Turnout in Israel’s general election was 71.0%, according to the country's Central Elections Commission. Some parties, like Likud, Labor, the Jewish Home, Zehut, and Meretz, have systems in which the leadership and most candidates on their lists are elected in primary elections. ביטול מינוי דיגיטלי . Yisrael Beiteinu, the party led by Avigdor Lieberman, says it will back a bill planned by Kahol Lavan to bar someone indicted for a crime to be tasked with forming a coalition. The Central Election Committee released Thursday the final, but not yet official, results of Israel's March 2 election, which show no change in the bloc map, as the center-left retained its 55 seats. 3 on Kahol Lavan, made a significant shift in his stance in regards to forming a minority government with 12 Joint List lawmakers, excluding the three members of the Balad faction, according to sources from within the party. For parties not crossing the electoral threshold (currently 3.25%) in any given poll, the number of seats is calculated as a percentage of the 120 total seats. Lieberman would eventually leave the government over the cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza. Likud remains at 36 seats, as does Kahol Lavan with 33 and the Joint List with 15. If you would like to be notified when your comment is published, Early elections were averted at that point in time. Israel election 2020: latest results This article is more than 5 months old. “The thing to do is to wait for the true results before we reach conclusions. Labor-Meretz-Gesher party HQ in Tel Aviv after Israeli election exit polls, March 2, 2020 Credit: Meged Gozani.
Israel's next election is expected to take place in March 2020 if the country's parliament dissolves this week after both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz failed to form a coalition. The two parties are expected to compromise on the March 3 date.On Saturday, Haaretz reported that Supreme Court President According to a previous arrangement, Justice Uzi Vogelman was in line to head the committee, but because Hendel had already accumulated experience as Melcer’s deputy in the two previous election campaigns, Hayut decided to offer him the position. Making a televised address, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the most recent tally of the vote in the third Israeli election and blasted his chief rival Benny Gantz. "He is trying to cancel out what the people determined," he continued, added that he and his party members have "repeatedly warned that Gantz is linking up with terror supporters." "If there is a change truly in the direction of peace and equality, we will examine this position."
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