No clear winner has emerged in the vote-counting in Israel’s national elections, and weeks of negotiations may lie ahead as an array of parties seeking to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks a parliamentary majority.
It’s a parliamentary system. He won in his constituency. His party lost vote share and Knesset seats, but remains large, just not large enough to form a government without coalition partners. So now there will be horse trading.
The opposition could do a lot better if they didn’t refuse to form a coalition that includes the Palestinian parties. But they’d rather maintain apartheid and possibly lose their chance at government.
It’s a parliamentary system. He won in his constituency. His party lost vote share and Knesset seats, but remains large, just not large enough to form a government without coalition partners. So now there will be horse trading.
The opposition could do a lot better if they didn’t refuse to form a coalition that includes the Palestinian parties. But they’d rather maintain apartheid and possibly lose their chance at government.