Posted on 04/08/2019 4:53:08 AM PDT by Nextrush
On Tuesday, Israel will hold its 21st general legislative election, giving the country's 6.34 million eligible voters the opportunity to vote in the 120 members of the next Knesset.
Unlike in the US and most parliamentary systems, Israel is not divided into electoral districts, and the entire country functions as a single de facto district, with all 120 Knesset seats allocated proportionally based on the nation-wide vote.
Minimum Electoral Threshhold and Seat Allocation
Any party which receives 3.25% or more of the vote is represented in the Knesset. Given historical trends of voter turnout, it is expected that some 4.4 million or so Israelis will take part in this year's election-meaning that a party must win about 144,000 votes to pass the electoral threshold.....
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Praying PM Benjamin Netanyahu gets re-elected
We shall see.
It will be interesting to see if the two big blocks, Likud with Netanyahu and Blue and White with Gantz can suck the votes out of the smaller political parties in Israel which have had a lot of leverage in recent decades.
Maybe we should adopt a proportional vote system; it would break up the stranglehold the two parties (really a uniparty) have on our government...
Absent the Republican party, conservatives would have no voice and absolutely no power.
A conservative minority operating within the Republican majority is fairly successful and elected President Trump
“Maybe we should adopt a proportional vote system”
If we did maybe we wouldn’t have ended up with an Occasional Cortex, but neither would we have had a Trump.
In a sense we have not two parties but thousands. In our elections the candidates are not selected by the party bosses, as in a proportional representative system, but by the voters, thus each one in essence is his own party. So you can have a Cortex running and a Trump running both outside their party’s mainstream and both despised by their parties bosses.
Additionally, our system is designed purposefully to be inefficient in terms of decision making. So more often than not you have different parties in control of the legislature and executive, purposefully making the passing of new laws slow and difficult. (the old separation of power trick).
Whereas, in a parliamentary system the executive by design is always of the same party as that controlling the legislature, so the majority can ram through anything it wants.
So in our system passing laws is a tortuous process and more prone to compromises and the middle ground. Whereas in a parliamentary you have laws that can swing wildly from one extreme to the other as different parties gain control.
Yes on Netanyahu! Pray every night for him.
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We already have one; it is balanced with a second house, the Senate. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance -- "reforms" to systems are nearly always designed to benefit those in power or those cravenly craving power.
Possibly decrease the division and animosity too.
From what I've seen, chances are good, but not certain, that Netanyahu will remain PM when all the smoke has cleared.
What on earth is the "Blue and White" Party all about? They seem to be the main threat to Netanyahu forming a ruling coalition in the next government.,/P>
Joining you, in prayers for Bibi and Israel.
I have family in Israel, they will be voting for BiBi tomorrow..the leftists in Israel want BiBi gone just like the lefties here in the US want Trump gone, same BS, different country
Likud will be able to form a coalition with New Right and Rightist Union and maybe a religious party or two, but he’ll typically draw in one leftist party, as well. But Bennett will be Defense Minister, if Bibi wants a coalition, and I think that’s a good thing, so I’m voting New Right tomorrow.
Blue and White is a jury rigged coalition of people who hate Bibi, including at the top three high-ranking generals, and Yair Lapid. It’s a house of cards, incapable of actually governing once Bibi’s out of power. I trust Lapid as far as I can throw him, anyway, and I’ve got a bad back.
Natanyahu will still be PM, but Feiglen’s party will pick up 3 seats, at least.
They’re a secular, center-left party that wants to limit the influence of the Rabbinate and put a cap on the number of terms PMs are allowed to serve.
I wuz wrong.
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