Surprise Me!

Israel election winner Netanyahu now seeks a Knesset majority

2015-03-18 14 Dailymotion

Confounding his critics and the opinion polls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is celebrating a surprise victory in Israel’s general election.<br /><br /> His next challenge will be putting together a stable coalition.<br /><br /> Netanyahu’s right wing Likud Party won 30 seats in Tuesday’s poll. <br /><br /> His main centre-left rival, the Zionist Union, took second place with 24 seats while a united list of Arab parties came third.<br /><br /> It amounts to a dramatic and unexpected victory.<br /><br /> The last opinion polls published four days before the vote showed the Zionist Union with a four-seat advantage over Likud, which now needs allies to form a majority in the Knesset. <br /><br /> Netanyahu must assemble 61 seats and crossing that threshold will be challenging given the amount of division across Israel’s political landscape.<br /><br /> “The citizens of Israel expect us to quickly put together a leadership that will work for them regarding security, economy and society as we committed to do – and we will do so,” he told triumphant suppor

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