Coalition formation will be challenging

ISRAEL - Report 18 Sep 2019 by Jonathan Katz

According to unofficial partial results of the elections held yesterday, Likud and Blue-White won 32 seats each, the Joint List 12, Shas and Yisrael Beytenu 9 each, UTJ 8, Yamina 7, Labor-Gesher 6 and the Democratic Union 5. According to 91% of the votes, Netanyahu fails to secure the ruling majority of 61 seats coalition without Yisrael Beytenu (Lieberman), with the right-wing bloc receiving only 56-57 seats.​

The results of the second 2019 elections put the political system into uncertainty, and it is still unknown as to whom (Ganz or Netanyahu) the president will hand the mandate to try to form a coalition first.

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