ArmInfo. The Likud party, headed by incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is leading in the country’s parliamentary elections held on October 27 after 76.8% of the votes were counted, The Times of Israel reported, citing preliminary data from the Central Election Commission.
According to Forbes, based on these data, Netanyahu’s party is winning 27 seats in the 120-seat parliament, while his main opposition rival Gadi Eisenkot, with the Yashar party, is in second place with 20 seats.
At the same time, the bloc of parties supporting Netanyahu, headed by Likud, is preliminarily winning 54 seats in parliament. The bloc headed by Eisenkot is winning 47.
According to preliminary data, Arab parties are winning 19 seats in parliament.
Before the election, Netanyahu’s bloc of parties controlled 55 seats in parliament, while the opposition held 49. Forming a ruling majority requires a coalition controlling 61 seats in the Knesset.
Democrats party leader Yair Golan is calling on the parties in Eisenkot’s bloc to enter into a partnership with Arab parties, secure a majority of seats in the Knesset, and form a government. “Netanyahu has lost. I know how to count to 120,” he wrote on the social media platform X.
Israel’s Central Election Commission will announce the vote-counting results on October 29. The final election results must be published no later than November 4. After receiving these results, President of Israel Isaac Herzog will begin consultations with representatives of the parties that entered the Knesset, following which he will task one of the party leaders with forming a new governing coalition.
As a rule, the candidate for prime minister is the leader of the party that won the largest number of seats in the Knesset. However, the president of Israel may task the leader of one of the parties with creating a coalition that will control 61 seats. If a coalition controlling 61 parliamentary seats is not formed within six weeks, new elections will be called after 90 days.
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