Nov. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Israel’s acting Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, congratulated Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for the victory of the right-wing bloc in Tuesday’s legislative elections, since the provisional count already anticipates little room for surprise. .
Lapid has called Netanyahu to congratulate him personally and has ordered all departments to facilitate an orderly transition, pending, however, that the final results are known and the president, Isaac Herzog, entrusts the head of Likud with the task of forming a government. .
“The State of Israel is above any political consideration,” defended Lapid, who wished “luck” to his political rival for the good of the citizens and the country as a whole, according to the newspaper ‘The Jerusalem Post’.
The Electoral Commission plans to release the final results on Thursday, although this Thursday the preliminary statistics continued to give the bloc headed by Netanyahu 64 seats, enough to dominate a Parliament in which there are 120 legislators.
Likud will likely have Religious Zionism as its main ally, which for the first time has placed a far-right party as the third most voted party and will have 15 seats in the next legislature.
