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Eisenkot vows to form 'Zionist government' as 88.6% of votes are counted
Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot pledged to form a “Zionist government” that supports mandatory military service, as the count of 88.6% of votes showed Netanyahu’s bloc winning 53 seats versus 48 for the opposition. Final results are due Thursday evening.
Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party and the main challenger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pledged to work toward forming a “Zionist government” that supports mandatory military service for everyone, as partial results showed that neither bloc had secured a majority.
Eisenkot said: “We are focused on forming a Zionist government that supports mandatory military service,” adding that his goal was to represent all Israelis.
Partial results show no bloc has a majority
With 88.6% of the votes counted, Netanyahu’s bloc had won 53 seats, compared with 48 for the opposition bloc. A bloc needs 61 of the 120 seats to form a government. Arab parties were winning about 19 seats, their highest result in history.
Final results due Thursday evening
Israel’s Central Elections Committee announced that the vote count would be completed Thursday evening and that the final results would be announced then, Israeli channel i24 reported. About 480,000 votes from soldiers, police officers, diplomats and others are still awaiting counting.
Four conditions for coalition partners
Eisenkot set four conditions for any coalition partner: recognizing Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, upholding the Declaration of Independence, accepting national service for all citizens with civilian alternatives to military service, and considering Hamas a terrorist organization that must be dismantled. None of the Arab parties has accepted the last condition so far.
Exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews, known as Haredim, from military service is among the key issues that have brought down or constrained previous Israeli governments. The Likud party, meanwhile, accuses Arab parties of “stealing” the election, without evidence to substantiate the claim having been published so far.
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