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Israeli Prime Minister 

Netanyahu Declares Victory 

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Sputnik,

2 March, 2020

Israeli exit polls showed earlier that Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party was leading in Monday's vote, followed by the opposition Blue and White party of Benny Gantz.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared victory in the general election held on Monday.

"We won by believing in our own way and by the people of Israel", Netanyahu tweeted and attached a picture of a man "three weeks in intensive care" who voted for Likud.

Meanwhile, the exit poll of Channel 13 showed the potential coalition led by Netanyahu's Likud gaining 59 seats in the Knesset, two seats short of a majority.

According to the preliminary data by the Central Elections Committee, Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party gained 31.49 percent of the vote, followed by the opposition Blue and White party of Benny Gantz with 23.90 percent. The Joint List, an alliance of four main Arab political parties in Israel, took its usual third place with 11.60 percent, and the religious Shas is in fourth place with 8.24 percent.

Commenting on his victory, Netanyahu made clear what he wanted to achieve in the coming years as the Israeli prime minister. This included applying sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and the Jordan Valley, a "historic alliance" with the United States, and establishing peace with leading Arab states, as quoted by Kann News.

He also said that it was high time to stop the election rounds and form a government in Israel, though he did not elaborate on the details of a future government coalition.

"It's time for reconciliation", the Israeli premier said.

Recent polls projected Netanyahu was most likely to build a coalition with Benny Gantz. Speaking to voters, Gantz did not state clearly if he would agree to a coalition with Likud.

While the structure of the coalition is in question, Head of Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party Avigdor Lieberman tweeted he would not join "any government led by Netanyahu and Shas and United Torah Judaism".

Earlier, Netanyahu thanked his party's supporters via Twitter as early exit polls said Likud was set to gain a majority of seats in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. Defence Minister Naftali Bennet also tweeted he would advise the president to mandate Netanyahu to form the government.

The 2 March snap parliamentary vote was an unprecedented case in the history of Israel, as it was the third election held in a row within less than a year. In April and September respectively, Likud failed to either secure a majority in the Knesset or negotiate a broader coalition with the opposition.

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Election in Israel: Netanyahu and Gantz neck and neck

PM Netanyahu and Gantz both declare victory as Israeli exit polls show tight results

RT,

9 April, 2019

Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz claimed victory for their parties in tightly contested elections to the 21st Knesset.

Preliminary exit polls by Israel’s Channel 12 put Gantz’ Blue and White party on track to take 37 seats, with Netanyahu’s Likud taking 33. Another poll by Channel 13 puts Netanyahu and Gantz neck and neck, with their respective parties both claiming 36 votes, while Channel 11 reports Netanyahu taking 36 seats to Gantz’ 37.

 

However, 120 seats in the Knesset are up for grabs, and Netanyahu can likely count on the support of other right-wingers to form a coalition.

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#Breaking: The #BlueWhite party has claimed victory in the #IsraelElection2019 — and now #Likud has too.
With the #blocs im favour of the right, PM Benjamin #Netanyahu has claimed victory and says he will begin forming the #Israeli government tonight.

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#IsraElex19: Following the first exit polls, leaders of #Israel’s #BlueWhite party, Benny #Gantz and Yair #Lapid, have released a statement declaring victory.
“These elections have a clear winner and a clear loser. #Netanyahu promised 40 seats and lost.”

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Both Netanyahu and Gantz have prematurely declared victory. Netanyahu claimed that the results show a “clear” victory for Likud and its allies, while Gantz put out a celebratory joint statement with running mate Yair Lapid.

“These elections have a clear winner and a clear loser,” he said. “Netanyahu promised 40 seats and lost. The president can see the picture and should call on the winner to form the next government. There is no other option!”

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#IsraElex19: Not the most festive mood at the moment at #Likud’s headquarters. All #journalist, no #politicians. Long night ahead...

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Definitive results will not be available until Wednesday morning, and the path to power is still far from certain for both leaders. The Likud leader took almost two months to build a coalition after his party won 30 seats in the 2015 elections, and courted the support of four other right-leaning and Orthodox Jewish parties to secure the bare minimum of 61 seats.

This time around, Netanyahu has taken to courting the support of some of Israel’s most radical right-wing voices, including the Jewish Power Party, a group described as “racist” and bent on remaking Israel as a “theocracy.” Netanyahu also pressed the Jewish Home Party into merging with Jewish Power Party, a move likely intended to stop the fringe right from siphoning too many votes away from Likud.

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#IsraElex19: No time is being wasted following today’s vote when it comes to forming the new #Israeli govt — despite the final results not yet out.#Shas and #UnitedTorahJudaism have committed to recommending #Netanyahu for PM, while #YisraelBeytenu and #Kulanu say they will wait

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#IsraElex19: As parties within the #Israeli political sphere must recommend a candidate for Prime Minister to the President, former #DefenceMinister and leader of the #YisraelBeytenu party, Avigdor #Liberman, has said he will not endorse #Netanyahu or #Gantz until final results.

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Speaking to voters in Israel, RT’s Paula Slier said that among the public, Netanyahu’s 10-year tenure is the number one issue. “Most people say that this is simply enough,” Slier said, “and this has been the main slogan of Benny Gantz’ Blue and White party.”

Posters of Netanyahu shaking hands with US President Donald Trump went up across Israel’s cities in the runup to the election. Netanyahu also sought to parlay Trump’s recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights and recent formal designation of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization into votes.

However, that move may have fallen flat, and right-wingers may be hesitant to form a coalition with such a strong Trump ally, especially given that Trump has not yet unveiled his Israel-Palestine peace plan. The plan, Slier explained, will call for some concessions from Israel, and therefore might be a hard sell for Netanyahu to his coalition partners.

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Netanyahu vowed days before the vote to annex parts of the Palestinian West Bank, a nod to these hardliners and a blow to Palestinian aspirations for an independent state. The Israeli leader also outright rejected the idea of a two-state solution, stating that a Palestinian state would “endanger our existence.” Gantz called his rival’s pre-election promise of the West Bank on a platter “irresponsible.”

Turnout among Israel’s Arab population was, perhaps unsurprisingly, low. Some of those who did show up found themselves recorded on hidden cameras by Likud activists at election stations in Arab-majority towns.

President Jimmy Carter gave Venezuela electoral system a tick

Former US President Carter: Venezuelan Electoral System “Best in the World”

Former US President Jimmy Carter has declared that Venezuela’s electoral system is the best in the world. 

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22 September, 2012

Former US President Jimmy Carter has declared that Venezuela’s electoral system is the best in the world.

Speaking at an annual event last week in Atlanta for his Carter Centre foundation, the politician-turned philanthropist stated, “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world.”

Venezuela has developed a fully automated touch-screen voting system, which now uses thumbprint recognition technology and prints off a receipt to confirm voters’ choices.

In the context of the Carter Centre’s work monitoring electoral processes around the globe, Carter also disclosed his opinion that in the US “we have one of the worst election processes in the world, and it’s almost entirely because of the excessive influx of money,” he said referring to lack of controls over private campaign donations.

The comments come with just three weeks before Venezuelans go to the polls on 7 October, in a historic presidential election in which socialist incumbent President Hugo Chavez is standing against right-wing challenger Henrique Capriles Radonski of the Roundtable of Democratic Unity (MUD) coalition.

Chavez welcomed Carter’s comments, stating yesterday that “he [Carter] has spoken the truth because he has verified it. We say that the Venezuelan electoral system is one of the best in the world”.

Chavez also reported that he had had a forty minute conversation with the ex-Democrat president yesterday, and said that Carter, “as Fidel [Castro] says, is a man of honour”. The Carter Centre has recently confirmed it will not send an official delegation to accompany the presidential election, but may have officials observe the process on an individual basis.

Meanwhile, the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) electoral accompaniment delegation arrived yesterday in Venezuela.

The delegation’s head, former Argentinian vice-president Carlos Alvarez, mentioned that this was the Unasur’s first electoral observation mission, and that “for us it’s fundamental to consolidate our democracies, because it’s taken us a lot of struggle, effort and time to establish [democracy] in our countries”.

In press comments after meeting with officials from Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) Alvarez declared that based on his experience of electoral observation in South America, ”Venezuela has one of the most advanced electoral systems in the region and the continent, that grants a great deal of confidence and transparency”.

Meanwhile, secretary of the MUD, Ramón Guillermo Aveledo, accused the CNE yesterday of being “biased”, and said that it doesn’t adhere to the National Constitution nor electoral law. In an interview with opposition TV station Globovision, he clarified his opinion that “we [the MUD] trust the voting system” but that CNE officials “have a preference” for the government.

The CNE has issued warnings regarding both the MUD and Chavez’s Carabobo Command for infringements of campaign rules relating to electoral publicity and advertising space.

Pro-Chavez sources have speculated that the opposition is planning not to recognise the CNE results in the likely event of a Chavez victory on 7 October. In July, Chavez and Capriles signed an accord by which both agreed to recognise the result announced by the CNE.