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March 23, 2021 The exit polls after the elections in Israel only partially dissolve the knot of forming a majority, after the four early consultations.



Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud confirms itself as the top political force, but the bloc supporting the outgoing prime minister would reach a majority in the Knesset only with the support of Naftali Bennett's far-right Yamina party.



This is what emerges from the exit polls released by "Channel 11", according to which the Likud would win 31 seats and the pro-Netanyahu bloc 54 seats in total.



In order to exceed 60 and have a majority in the Knesset, consisting of 120 seats, the 7 seats of Yamina are needed, a party close to the settlers who did not ensure that he wanted to support Netanyahu and, according to some scenarios, could go to the other side. 



Even the exit polls released by "Channel 12" and "Channel 13", albeit with slight differences regarding the allocation of seats to the parties, agree that the pro-Netanyahu bloc would only be able to obtain a majority in Parliament with the support of Yamina .



Netanyahu's blockade would have the votes of his Likud, 31 seats, along with 16 seats of ultra-Orthodox parties (Shas at 9 and United Torah Judaism at 7) and 7 seats of Religious Zionism.



To these 54 seats it is assumed that the 7 seats of Yamina of the techno-colonist Naftali Bennett will be added, who has called for a change at the top of the country, but has never ruled out going to government with Netanyahu.         



On the other hand, the centrists of Yair Lapid win 18 seats, Blue and White of Benny Gantz and the Labor of Merva Michaeli take 7, six in Meretz as well as in New Hope by Gideon Saar.



The United Arab List gains 8 seats while Ra'am fails to cross the threshold.



Results are expected tomorrow morning.



Low turnout

The election was characterized by low voter turnout in Israel.

At 9 pm local time (8 pm in Italy), 60.9% of those eligible voted, 4.7 percentage points less than the last election in March 2020.



It is the lowest figure since 2009 when it was registered at the same time. 59.7%.

The turnout among the Arab minority is particularly low.