final supervision grant 32 seats for Likud Netanyahu, who won the election and reached 64 deputies along with the Religious Zionist Party (14) and the ultra-orthodox Shas (11) and the Torah Judaism Union (7).

A) Yes, this party bloc exceeds the minimum majority of parliamentarians required to rule in the House of 120.

The next step will be the presentation of the final results to the president, Isaac Herzog, who will receive party leaders with parliamentary representatives in the coming days, so they can recommend candidates for the prime ministerial position.

Netanyahu is expected to easily reach the minimum majority of the 61 recommendations and mandated to form a government.

Following this procedure, the former president will have to confer with the leaders of the parties in his bloc to distribute ministerial portfolios, something that should not be a bottleneck given the four formations that make up him have been united throughout the campaign.

The current acting prime minister, Yair Lapid, spoke with Netanyahu today to congratulate him on his victory and inform him that he had given “instructions to his entire office to prepare for an orderly transfer of command.”

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“The state of Israel is above any political considerations. I wish Netanyahu success, for the good of the people of Israel and the State of Israel,” said the outgoing leader, whose center party, Yesh Atid, came second in the 24-seat election.

Thus, the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history, with a cumulative 15 years in power, will regain his lost position in June 2021 at the hands of the so-called “Government of change” formed by Lapid along with seven parties. from around the world.political arc.

Netanyahu will return to lead Israel as his trial continues, where he was charged with fraud, bribery and breach of trust in four separate corruption cases.

This judicial process is one of the central themes of the campaign, as the Zionist Religious Party anticipates that, if it becomes part of the Government, it will seek to carry out profound Judicial reforms, including steps that will benefit Netanyahu in his trial.

The 14 seats gained by this far-right formation and with openly racist and homophobic members make it the third political power in Israel and will give it power for coalition negotiations.

The fourth party in the number of votes is National Unity, led by the current Secretary of Defense, Benny Gantz, and which has anticipated that its 12 deputies will become part of the opposition bloc.

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They are followed by two ultra-Orthodox formations that will form a new government, while in seventh place is the secular right-wing Israel Our Home, also a member of the anti-Netanyahu bloc and which won six seats.

One of the main novelties of this election is crushing defeat of the left party.

The Labor Party, which has ruled Israel since its founding and for most of its history, won a record low of four seats and the pacifist Meretz did not achieve, for the first time in its history, the minimum number of votes to enter Parliament.

On the other hand, the Arab Raam and Hadash-Tal formations gained five representatives each, while the Arab nationalist party Balad did not achieve the minimum 3.25% required to secure parliamentary representation with multiple votes.

A striking element of the final outcome of the election is that, although the bloc led by Netanyahu will have 64 of the 120 members of Parliament, among the four parties that make it up, they only added 48.36% of the vote, exceeding less than 6% of the total vote. opposition block in the Chamber.

The remainder of the vote went to parties that did not enter parliament, notably Meretz, Balad and the far-right Jewish House.

Here’s the end result:

Likud: 32 seats (23.41% of the vote)

Yesh Atid: 24 seats (17.78% of the vote)

Zionist Religious Party: 14 seats (10.83% of the vote)

National Union: 12 seats (9.08% of the vote)

Shas: 11 seats (8.24% of the vote)

United Torah Judaism: 7 seats (5.88% of the vote)

Israel Our Home: 6 seats (4.49% of the vote)

Ram: 5 seats (4.07% of the vote)

Hadash-Tal: 5 seats (3.75% of the vote)

Labor Party: 4 seats (3.69% of the vote)