Posted on 02/10/2009 12:11:09 PM PST by Victory111
Kadima wins elections, but will it form the next government? Kadima and its Chairwoman, Tzipi Livni, are the big winners of the 2009 general elections, according to a Rafi Smith exit poll commissioned by Ynet, with Likud finishing a disappointing 2nd.
Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu delivered at crunch time to become Israel's third-largest party, while Ehud Barak's Labor party sustained a harsh blow. Exit polls by Israel's major television channels showed similar results
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Israel might crash and burn after all. After Iran nukes them I guess the US will end missile defense
I cannot believe that the Israeli people have chosen to place themselves in such grave danger. Do they not know that on this election day Obama has chosen to kiss the boots of Syria?
Wait, so Livni won, Netanyahu lost, I thought he was winning
A sad development indeed. Bebe Netanyahu is the man they at this moment in their history. Anything less and they will flinch in their stand against Iran. That may give Ahmadinejad all the time he needs to complete and deploy his nukes.
There seems to be no end to the bad news today.
Any Israeli followers know how this will play out for the Coalition Government?
Maybe the Isreali exit polls suck as much as American exit polls.
Isn’t this the more conservative hardline party that won? To the right of Netanyahu?
John Kerry won the exit polls, too.
Kadima 28 + Labor 14 = 42
Likud 26 + Yisrael Beiteinu 16 = 42
This should be interesting.
She has three months to come up with a coalition, if she doesn’t, she is out. My Mom is pissed, she wanted Netanyahu to win, he would have been much stronger. But I guess people in Israel want to give up some land for peace, those hippie peace activists over there are as insane as they are here.
Maybe the Isreali exit polls suck as much as American exit polls.
Maybe they have their version of ACORN over there
If true, the Israeli citizens just put the stamp of approval on two lost wars, all while rockets still punctuate the second of the two.
I guess they don’t care.
I guess that the Labor coalition will be looking for the Israeli “Susan Collins”?
“Kadima 28 + Labor 14 = 42
Likud 26 + Yisrael Beiteinu 16 = 42
This should be interesting.”
Yes, very. This thing is a long way from being decided.
Wow...That’s going to make for some interesting horse trading to form a government...Some of those small parties are really going to be in power positions now, no matter who’s coalition takes over.
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Exit polls shows Kadima ahead
Channel 1 sees 30 seats for Kadima, but the right-wing block has an advantage over the center-left.
Globes correspondent10 Feb 09 22:06
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000424717&fid=942
Voting in Israel's close-fought general election ended at 10pm this evening. Among the major parties, the Channel 1 exit poll gives 30 of the Knesset's 120 seats to Kadima, led by Tzipi Livni, 28 seats to Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, 14 to Israel Beiteinu, led by Avigdor Lieberman, 13 to Labor, led by Ehud Barak, and 9 to Shas, led by Eli Yishai.
The Ynet-Smith poll gives 28 to Kadima, 26 to Likud, 16 to Israel Beiteinu, 14 to Labor, and 10 to Shas.
The exit poll results are something of an upset, since in pre-election polls Likud led all the way, albeit with a steadily reducing lead.
Although it looks as though Kadima will be the largest single party, as things stand it is nevertheless expected that it will be Benjamin Netanyahu who will be asked to try to form a government, since the right-wing block has a clear lead over the center-left block to which Kadima belongs. The result could however lead to a constitutional crisis, since as the largest party Kadima will claim that Tzipi Livni has the right to form a government.
The projected result is a catastrophe for Labor, the worst in the party's history. Israel Beiteinu too has gained far fewer seats than the pre-election polls indicated that it would.
Can the Religious Orthodox parties ally with LiKud and Yisrael Beiteinu?
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