Poll: Likud, Blue and White would each get 30 seats, Liberman still kingmaker

9 July 2019, 8:57 pm

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The Kan public broadcaster releases a poll indicating that Israeli’s political gridlock could likely continue after general elections in September.

If elections were held today, the survey said, both the center-left and right-wing blocs would come up short of the 61 Knesset seats needed to form a coalition, with Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party holding the balance of power.

Liberman has called for a unity government that includes Yisrael Beytenu, Likud, and Blue and White to be formed after the elections. His refusal to join a prospective coalition led by Prime Miniter Netanyahu after April’s elections unless he received a guarantee a bill on ultra-Orthodox enlistment would be passed without changes helped trigger the fresh vote.