With Israeli elections set for next month, a
new Jerusalem Post poll finds that all totaled, right-wing
parties have a strong eight-seat advantage over left parties,
suggesting that if the election were held today Likud's Benjamin
Netanyahu would return to power as Israel's next prime minister.
Most polls have shown that the Gaza operation has benefited Labor
(led by Defense Minister Ehud Barak) but has either not helped or
hurt the prospects for Kadima, led by Foreign Minister Tzipi
Livni.
As for this one:
The survey found that the Likud had risen from 27 seats to 29,
Labor had gone up from 14 to 15, and Kadima had fallen from 27
to 23 since the previous Post poll was published on
October 31. Likud and Kadima, which were tied then, are now six
seats apart, and the Right bloc's advantage over the Left
remains a hefty eight mandates, 64 to 56.
The Knesset has 120 members, meaning that the party that wins the
most seats needs to put together a coalition with other parties
totalling 61 seats to form a government.
