Israel returns to the vote for the fourth time in two years. With covid (but also with vaccines)

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March 22, 2021

one side of the scales, the heaviest one, Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving outgoing premier, puts the results of a vaccination campaign, which made the country the first in the world, and in foreign policy the Abrahamic Agreements, which are changing the geopolitics of the region.

On the other side, a trial that for the first time sees a head of government sitting in the dock for corruption, fraud and abuse of power, and the instability of an electoral political system of which he is certainly not the only one responsible, but which he skilfully rode and leading the country to elections for the fourth time in two years. 

In short, again a survey on Netanyahu with an uncertain outcome, with alliances that are made up and broken down;

a number of undecided that are worth 10 seats;

a right that loses some pieces and becomes radicalized;

a center that fails to aggregate;

a left at historic lows;

and the Arab parties which, after a short interlude, return to divide.

The so-called alternate premier, who should have held the relay race with Netanyahu in November, is destined for a downsizing, Benny Ganz with his party that already after joining the previous government had broken the alliance with Lapid, the politician who tried to organize an alternative coalition to the premier, which, however, is struggling to take off;

then Gideon Saar, the eternal Likud dolphin, who broke the moorings and founded a new right-wing party;

and finally, the new face of the left, that of Merav Micaeli, a former journalist who is trying to restore polish to the image of Labor after the past collapses.

In these first elections after the vaccines and the Covid flood wave, everything has been studied in detail.

The seats will be more than 13 thousand, of which almost 700 will be reserved exclusively for Covid patients, who will be accompanied by special means, and for people in quarantine.

Even drones will watch over these "vote and drives" to avoid crowds.

The organization also provides mobile seats, on equipped buses that will go around the cities to collect the vote of those who are unable to reach the polls.

All this will probably involve a longer period for the counting of votes.