‘Israeli’ Elections: Likud, Blue and White Head-To-Head In New Polls

By Staff, Agencies

In two new separate polls published Sunday night by Zionist media, the margin between Likud and Blue & White parties remained minute with less than three weeks until the Zionist entity’s general election on September 17.

A survey conducted by Kan broadcaster showed that if the ‘Israeli’ elections were held today, the Likud -- led by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- would receive 32 Knesset [Zionist Parliament] seats to Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party’s 31.

A second survey by ‘Israeli’ Channel 13 broadcaster switched between the two with the same number of Knesset seats: 32 for Blue & White and 31 for Likud.

Both polls also made clear that neither party would be able to form a coalition government without the right-wing secular Yisrael Beiteinu party, led by former war minister Avigdor Lieberman, which is predicted to earn 9 seats in the next Knesset, according to Kan’s poll, and 11 seats with Channel 13’s poll.

According to Kan’s survey, the third largest party was the Joint Arab List with 11 seats. Ayelet Shaked’s right-wing Yamina received 10 seats and the Democratic Union got 7. The ultra-Orthodox parties received 7 seats each. The far-right Jewish Power was not able to pass the mandated threshold with only 2.9% of the survey vote.

Channel 13’s poll showed that Yamina and the Joint Arab List received 10 seats each, the Democratic Union and the United Torah Judaism party win 7 seats, and Shas and Labor-Gesher List parties received 6 seats each. Jewish Power did not pass the required threshold of 3.25% in this survey as well.