‘Israeli’ Elections: Final Results Show Likud Gains Seat, Blue and White At 35

By Staff, Agencies

‘Israeli’ Central Elections Committee released the latest results for the Zionist entity’s April 9 Knesset elections.

With the completion of the vote count, including those of occupation’s military members, Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party gained a 36th Knesset seat while his main rival, the Blue and White Party, remained at 35 of the total 120 seats.

The figures also showed that Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked’s New Right party failed to pass the threshold of 3.25% of the vote.

A party required 139,744 votes in order to pass the threshold and the New Right lacked 1,461 votes.

Meanwhile, the Right-wing bloc has a 65-55 advantage over the Left and the Arab parties. However, minor changes to the final tally may still be forthcoming.

The other parties have the following number of Knesset seats: Shas, 8; Yahadut Hatorah lost one seat to the Likud and now has 7; Labor and Hadash-Ta'al, 6; the Union of Right-Wing Parties, 5; Yisrael Beytenu, 5; Meretz and Ra'am-Blad, 4 each. The Zehut Party failed to pass the threshold.

Netanyahu is already in the midst of negotiations in order to form, what would be a narrow, coalition of 65 MKs, but any of his partners will have the ability to bring down the government. Another option is for the prime minister to seek a national unity government with the Blue and White Party, or with defectors from that party, in order to form a more stable coalition.

The announcement of the results was scheduled for 8pm but was delayed, due to what the head of the Central Elections Committee claimed were technical issues.