Sunday, January 18, 2015

Israeli Elections, What a mess!

There is a real possibility that the upcoming elections in Israel will end in stalemate.
No faction or party will have what is needed it seems to form a coalition of a solid 61 knesset members.
This is not trivial as the prospect of a national unity government seem also near impossible.
It is likely at the end of all this mess that the Likud with little of its own knesset members will form a right wing government which will have difficulty functioning.
Great difficulty.
The numbers go like this
Likud 23 + Jewish home party 16 + Agudat yisroel 8 + party of Moshe Chaclon 8 + Shass 6 = 61
if Eli Yishai gets in he will join as well making it 65.
The left has much more little chance to form the next government
They have labor 24 + lapid 11 + merezt 6 =41 + arab parties 11 =52
Liberman will not sit with merezt and cannot agree to demands of the Chardie parties
No matter how you look at it its a big mess.

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