Poll Places Bennett 1 MK Away from Top Spot
November 20, 2014If elections were held today, Likud would receive 20 MKs and the Jewish Home would receive 19 MKs, according to a poll held by Panels Politics for the Knesset Channel.
Yesh Atid and Labor would receive 13 MKs, according to this poll. These numbers show Yesh Atid gaining strength relative to previous polls, and Labor losing ground.
Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu, hareidi UTJ and leftist Meretz get 8 each in the poll, and Shas gets 7. The Arab parties receive 11 seats all together, Hatnua has 4 and Kadima fails to make it past the threshold.
Assuming the poll is accurate, if elections were held tomorrow and Bennett was able to squeeze one more of Likud’s seats into his party’s grasp, the Jewish Home would become the leading party in the national camp and the largest in the Knesset.
Under such circumstances, the president would be expected to give Bennett the first nod for trying to form a governing coalition, although given his tensions with hareidi parties over his push for the controversial Enlistment Law along with tensions with leftist parties, his chance of success in doing so remains a question.
The traditional “right wing religious camp” has 62 seats in the poll, just one more than it received in the last election.
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