Polls: Still No Coalition in Sight
With three weeks to go before elections, the configuration of parties remains much the same as it has been for months, showing Likud as the biggest vote-getter but still short of a coalition, according to the latest polls on Tuesday night.
Also dimming Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s hopes for reelection was a finding of widespread dissatisfaction with his government’s handling of the covid crisis.
A Channel 12 poll ranked the parties as follows:
Likud: 28
Yesh Atid: 19
New Hope: 14
Yamina: 12
Joint List: 9
Shas: 8
Yisrael Beytenu: 7
Labor: 7
United Torah Judaism: 6
Religious Zionism: 5
Blue and White: 5
Channel 13 showed slight differences:
Likud: 27
Yesh Atid: 19
New Hope: 11
Yamina: 11
Joint List: 8
Shas: 7
Yisrael Beytenu: 7
United Torah Judaism: 7
Labor: 6
Religious Zionism: 5
Blue and White: 4
Meretz: 4
Neither Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc, nor the center-left opposition would have enough MKs to form a coalition, suggesting the possibility of an inconclusive outcome and yet another election later in the year.
According to the first poll, the left-wing Meretz fails to cross the electoral threshold of 3.25% of the vote.
Channel 13’s poll found that 48% of the public is unhappy Netanyahu’s performance during the ongoing health and economic crisis, while just 28% express satisfaction.
Sixty-two percent say they don’t have faith in the government’s public health guidelines, while 28% do.
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