Israeli election exit polls suggest Netanyahu, main rival Gantz in dead heat
With final results hours away, the early indications were that Netanyahu suffered a setback by failing to score a decisive victory. The 69-year-old prime minister's fate is clouded by a series of corruption investigations.
The Kan and Channel 13 polls projected Likud and its hard-line allies to have the upper hand in being able to form a coalition, while a Channel 12 showed them with 60 seats apiece.“We won! The Israeli public has had their say!” the Blue and White party said. “These elections have a clear winner and a clear loser.”
Yohanan Plesner, a former lawmaker and head of the nonpartisan Israel Democracy Institute, called the close and conflicting exit polls “an unprecedented situation.”Several parties, including the Arab Balad list and the ultranationalist “New Right,” were on the cusp of winning the needed 3.25% of the votes to enter parliament. The fate of these small parties could play a key role in determining who becomes prime minister.
Clouded by looming corruption indictments, Netanyahu is seeking a fourth consecutive term and a fifth overall, which would make him Israel's longest-serving leader, surpassing founding father David Ben-Gurion. But corruption scandals have created some voter fatigue, and in recent days Netanyahu has vowed to annex Jewish West Bank settlements if re-elected - a prospect that could doom already-slim hopes of establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel, which he has wavered on.
The Palestinian issue has been largely sidelined in a campaign that has been long on scandal and short on substance. While Gantz has expressed an openness to resume contacts with the Palestinians, his positions were vague and did not express support for Palestinian independence.“They want their occupation to be endless,” he said.
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