If no party wins decisively, how will the government be formed?
Since the establishment of POWs in 1948, the management of affairs has always been the responsibility of the coalition governments. Will the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, be present in the next government?
Yesterday, October 27, Israeli prisoners went to the polls in the first national elections in the country after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.
As voting day approached, the polls showed that this contest would be one of the closest in recent years, and most election analysts predicted that no party would emerge as a clear winner.
Polls have confirmed this, showing that Gadi Eisenkot's coalition will win the number of seats, but Netanyahu's Likud party will remain the largest party in Israel's captive parliament.
Now, with about seventy percent of the votes counted, it is clear that Benjamin Netanyahu is in the lead, but he still does not have the parliamentary majority. Israel's captive parliament, the Knesset, has 120 seats, and the government must hold 61 seats to have a majority.
Israel's governments in captivity have always been a coalition of several parties, and the current government of this country was formed from a coalition of several parties led by Benjamin Netanyahu.