Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has come out victorious in the recent elections having garnered close to 99.5 percent votes of the ballots counted and with his rival Zionist Union’s Isaac Herzog conceding defeat.
According to the YNetnews 30 of the 120 seats in Parliament were captured by Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud Party while his rival captured 14 seats. While addressing a handful of cheering supporters, Netanyahu acknowledged that the achieved was such a huge victory regardless of the odds he had to under embarking on a last minute scorched-earth campaign.
Israel’s ballots are not allocated to individual candidates but to political parties hence any sort of victory is allocated to the party leader who is deemed fit to put bring together a 61-seat majority with coalition parties.
While the president’s office must late lead in negotiating for a new government, there is still a high probability that Netanyahu will lead the government having has garnered more seats from the 120 seats. He said that he had urged all the party leaders to help him in forming a government
At Likud’s election party at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, he expressed his pride for the Israel people who had been able to separate between what’s important and what was not. “Real security, strong leadership and social economy are some of the things that are important to most of us.” Likud announced to an exuberant crowd.
It is in the 90’s that Mr. Netanyahu served as prime minister for three years and returned to office again in 2009 under what was termed as a huge victory.
On the other hand Mr. Herzog expressed his optimism in leading the government having formed a negotiating team. “The public wants a change, and a real social government that will stitch the fractured Israel together. Hence we shall do anything within our power to achieve this”. Herzog exclaimed just before the revelation ofLikud’s large margin of victory at an election-night party in Tel Aviv.