Parliamentary elections in Israel: Nothing has been decided according to Yair Lapid

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“Until the last ballot has been counted, nothing has been decided. We will wait patiently, however anxiously, for the final results,” Mr. Lapid told a gathering of supporters of his Yes Atid (“There Is a Future”) party in Tel Aviv.

“We have to wait for the final results” as “nothing has been decided” yet in Tuesday’s parliamentary elections in Israel, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said today, whose party is reportedly on course to become the second party in the Knesset. .

“Until the last ballot has been counted, nothing has been decided. We will wait patiently, however anxiously, for the final results,” Mr. Lapid told a gathering of supporters of his Yes Atid (“There Is a Future”) party in Tel Aviv.

According to forecasts by Israeli television networks, Likud, the right-wing party of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will take first place by securing about thirty seats in the Israeli national delegation, ahead of Mr. Lapid’s Yesh Atid, which is expected to field 24 members in the Knesset. .

The “Religious Zionism” faction is on course to double its strength, winning 14 MPs, according to exit polls, which also bode well for the parties of so-called ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Always according to the six polls, Mr. Netanyahu is on course to secure a majority of the seats in the Knesset if the seats of the religious parties and the far right are included.

The National Electoral Commission has so far only released a few results, which do not allow drawing conclusions.

After the parliamentary elections in the spring of 2021, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett formed a motley alliance with the main, if not the only, common denominator of driving Mr. Netanyahu from power. But that alliance has lost its majority in recent months, leading to yesterday’s vote, the fifth in a row in less than four years in Israel.

“We have no intention of stopping. “Every Israeli citizen, religious or not, left or right, Jewish or Arab, heterosexual or LGBT, must know that we will continue to fight for Israel to be a Jewish and democratic, liberal and progressive state,” Mr. Lapid said at the rally. in Tel Aviv, his stronghold.

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