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Exit polls see Netanyahu re-elected as PM; Lapid huge surprise with 19 mandates

Exit polls marking the conclusion of the 2013 national elections are predicting re-election for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the big surprise was Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party, which, according to the polls, won 19 mandates.

According to exit polls released by Israel's main television networks, the joint Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu ticket won 31 Knesset seats in Tuesday's vote, while Shelly Yachimovich's Labor Party gained 16 to 18 mandates. The rightist Habayit Hayehudi party, headed by Naftali Bennett, came in third and will have 13 or 14 representatives in the 19th Knesset, the exit polls predicted.

The polls showed the the rightist bloc won a combined 61 Knesset seats, while the leftist bloc won 59 mandates.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,...46,00.html

Knapper als erwartet aber Netanyahu sollte ohne weiteres MP bleiben.
Er sollte mit Lapid und Bennett eine Dreierkoalition bilden.