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New Independant Poll Has Zehut Crossing Threshold – Right Wing Winning Majority


In what is shaping up to be another tight race between the right-wing and left-wing blocs vying for a majority in the upcoming election, the latest poll puts the right-wing out in front by two mandates. With a 61-59 margin, the poll, conducted by the firm TNS, published the latest poll on Wednesday.

The left-wing bloc, which includes the Arab parties, seems to have lost some ground to the right-wing since the previous poll, in which the mandate count was reversed.

According to the new poll, the Blue and White party run by Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid and a small party known as Telem, fell from 37 mandates to 35, accounting for the switch in the total for each side.

On the other side of the spectrum, the Likud gained one of those two lost seats, rising from 29 seats in the previous poll to 30 mandates.

The other surprise of the poll was that of the Zehut party, who passed the threshold for the first time on a non-affiliated firm’s election poll. The Zehut party, which is run by former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin is libertarian-leaning in nature. The party was among the first to publish a comprehensive platform and the only one to do so in four languages involving an interactive website and videos in order to attract voters.  The TNS poll has them winning four mandates. Many of these votes seem to have come from centrist-right voters as both the parties of Yisrael Beiteinu and Gesher would fail to cross the threshold according to this poll.

The two Arab lists – Hadash-Ta’al and the United Arab List-Balad – would win a combined 12 seats. This is one seat less than the parties, who ran on a four-party-joint-list won in 2015.

According to the poll, Meretz would retain the five seats it currently holds, while Labor would win seven seats. A far cry from the 19 seats it won in 2015.

Among the Charedi factions, United Torah Judaism would win seven seats, and Shas would win five mandates.

The poll also had The New Right, the Union of Right-Wing Parties and Kulanu all winning five seats each.



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