Israel election result shows no overall majority as vote count complete
Summary
Preliminary results from Israel’s parliamentary election show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc with 53 seats and the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot with 48, leaving both short of a majority in the 120-seat Knesset. Opposition leaders have begun coalition talks, but final results still require certification and no governing arrangement is clear.Key Facts
- Netanyahu’s bloc holds 53 seats, according to results reported after more than 99 percent of ballots were counted.
- The opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot holds 48 seats.
- Arab list parties together hold 19 seats, including seven projected for Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party.
- A majority in the Knesset requires 61 of 120 seats.
- Eisenkot met with Naftali Bennett and Yair Golan to discuss forming a government.
- Golan met separately with Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas; the article says other political groups have rejected a coalition with Palestinian citizen-led parties.
- Netanyahu’s Likud party has alleged that Arab-led parties stole the election, but the claims are unsubstantiated; Central Elections Committee head Noam Sohlberg asked the Shin Bet to investigate allegations of foreign interference that he could not verify.
- The election results are provisional and are due to be certified and announced by Wednesday.
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