According to the official results based on 99.5% of total votes, Prime Minister Netanyahu lacks a clear path to a coalition, as does everyone else.
No changes are made to the Knesset makeup by the update, and with just 20,000 votes left, it is likely that they won’t change further.
As Likud allies start to pressure him to join Prime Minister Netanyahu’s bloc, New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar says all the options for creating an anti-Netanyahu coalition must first be exhausted.
“It is clear that Netanyahu doesn’t have a majority for a coalition headed by him,” Sa’ar says in a statement.
“Now we must work to fulfil the potential for forming a government of change. As I announced on election night, ego won’t be a factor.”
