Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz were waiting Wednesday for the official results of the upcoming parliamentary elections and are already pointing to difficult talks to give birth to a new government.
Objective 61 Members
Exit polls credited Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud (right) with 30 to 32 seats out of 120 in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, compared to 32 to 34 seats for the Blue-white party of Benny Gantz, former head of the Israeli parliament. the army that has converted to politics.
In addition to the scores of these two parties, the results of the potential allies of each will be crucial because the question is not so much who will have the most seats between Netanyahu and Gantz, but which one will be able to reach, by alliances, the number of 61 deputies, the threshold of the majority in Parliament. However, according to exit polls, no bloc seems able to gather this number of deputies and thus form a government after this second election in five months, the April elections having resulted in a score similar.
Back to square one ?
And the official results fell by the wayside into the night, leaving some of the suspense, or more accurately political arithmetic, for the day of Wednesday. But already, it seemed clear that the two major parties had to negotiate with each other, and / or with other formations, in order to claim to form a new government and avoid the scenario of last spring when Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to form a coalition after hard-fought elections.
As a result, he dissolved Parliament and called a new vote on Tuesday, hoping to move the tectonic plates of Israeli politics. Five months later, Israel appears to be nearing a starting point, with leaders pointing to talks without agreeing on possible partners for the discussion.