Posted on | March 14, 2015 | No Comments
On 20 February the President Shimon Peres announced that Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu would be given the task of forming a government.[45] This is the first time in which the president had not appointed the head of the largest party for this task, although there had already been several cases in which the Prime Minister was not the head of the largest party. Such a case occurred in the 1996 elections, when Netanyahu himself was elected Prime Minister by direct vote although his Likud party won fewer seats than Shimon Peres’s Labor party. Peres’s motivation in nominating Netanyahu was likely based upon the judgment that Netanyahu was in a better position numerically to put together a coalition. Likud’s potential partners on the political right won more seats than the parties of the centre-left, who would more likely support Kadima.
In spite of the fact that 2 left wing parties joined to form one party and a former minister of Neetanyahu’s government formed his own party and took the votes from Netanyahu, the president of Israel is supposed to task one, most likely to create a coalition of 61 mandates to form the coalition government. Israel never had a 1 party government, always a coalition. Currently according to polls, the coalition of all right wiing parties has projected 66 mandates, (3 mandates total gain) and left wing parties have a total of 54 mandates
Dialog conducted a poll that was taken out for Channel 10 and released on March 14 2015.
This was the last poll released in the 2015 Election cycle.
Current Knesset seats in [brackets]
24 [20] Zionist Union (Labor-Livni)
20 [18] Likud
13 [11] The Joint (Arab) List
12 [20] Yesh Atid
12 [11] Bayit Yehudi
10 [02] Kulanu (Kahlon+Kadima)
07 [10] Shas
07 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
05 [06] Meretz
05 [02] Yachad (Yishai+Chetboun+Marzel)
05 [13] Yisrael Beitenu
66 [63] Right-Religious-Kahlon (Parties that have not ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)
54 [57] Center-Left-Arab (Parties that have ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)
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