A poll conducted in Israel last week and published for the first time on Sunday by Channel 13 revealed for the first time that a government could be formed without the help of the Likud, Arab Joint List party, Meretz, or the Charedi parties.
The survey, which was conducted by pollster Prof.Camil Fuchs showed that Yamina leader Naftali Bennett could gain enough support to be able to form a government without Netanyahu and his supporters in the Charedi parties or the parties on the far left.
The poll, which surveyed 1,102 respondents representing a statistical sample of the Israeli adult population, revealed that should an election be held today, Likud would win 27 seats and Yamina would be hot on their tails with 24. The Yesh Atid party would win 21, the Joint List would win 11, Yisrael Beiteinu, Shas and Blue and White would all win eight, UTJ would win seven and Meretz would win six.
Thus, Yamina would be able to form a government with Yesh Atid, Yisrael Beiteinu and the Blue and White Party and come away with 61 seats. Should such a coalition exist, it would enable Avigdor Lieberman to once again sit in the government as it would exclude all the parties he has vetoed.
In a similar poll published by Channel 12 news, Yamina would win two fewer seats at 22 but would still be able to form a coalition.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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That’s an impossible coalition. That’s like a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, communists, and libertarians. Numerically possible but philosophically impossible.
Fake news
Is he a rite winger or a wright winger? He’s certainly not a right winger!
He should still align himself with the Kahanist-inspired parties and the Kharedi parties while avoding the Left, Likud, and Goyim.
This is a very silly exercise, not rooted in any kind of remote reality.
Bennett has already sat in a coalition with Yesh Atid and Yisrael Beiteinu, and Kachol Lavan is not a true “Leftist” party – so never say never. That being said, polls in Israel, particularly when there’s no election scheduled, are notoriously unreliable – so I’d take this with a couple of heaping handfuls of salt.
The main advantage of floating this hypothetical coalition is that it can force Netanyahu out, since the Likud would not be able to form a coalition with these parties.
an Israeli Yid