Israel’s General Election Ends in Deadlock, Two Main Parties Fail to Claim Needed Seats

The official results of Israel’s general election have provided little in the way of a new government as the country’s two main parties failed to capture the necessary seats needed to form a government.

Election results showed that Kadima still held their 28 seats while their closest rival Likud maintained their 27 seats, both parties fell short of the 61 they would need to organize their own government. Tzipi Livni of Kadima and Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud will now try to find coalition partners that will shape the new government.

It will be up to President Shimon Peres to select which leader will attempt to form the new coalition government and both leaders have begun to state their case. Livni appears to have her work cut out for her as she would need to gather support from several smaller parties and many of them are against her proposed peace plans with Palestinians.

Netanyahu seems to think he would have an easier time forming a coalition government as he has said the majority of Israelis favor a right-wing government and more than half the seats in the Knesset are currently held by nationalist parties.

Official results of the general election will be announced next Wednesday at which time Peres will ask one of the leaders to form the new body. Whoever is selected will then have up to 42 days to form a coalition but if that fails Peres can then ask another leader to try.

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