Yesh Atid, whose leader Yair Lapid seeks to become prime minister, cemented it status as the potential second-largest faction in parliament, as the latest election poll projected it is likely to win 20 Knesset seats. Likud maintains the lead, with 28 mandates.
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The poll, which aired on Tel Aviv-based 103FM Radio on Tuesday was conducted by Panel Politics, comprised 591 eligible voters and has a statistical margin of error of 4.3%.
The data showed that were elections held at this time Likud would win 28 seats, followed by Yesh Atid (20), Yamina (12), New Hope (11), the Joint Arab List (8), Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party Shas (8), Yisrael Beytenu (8), Ashkenazi Haredi party United Torah Judaism (6), Labor (6), Blue and White (5), Meretz (4) and the Religious Zionist Party (4).
Failing to cross the four-seat electoral threshold, which represents 3.25% of the votes, are the Economic party (1.2%) and the Arab Ra'am party (2.6%).
These results give the right-wing bloc 46 mandates to the Center-Left bloc's 62 – excluding Yamina, which has yet to commit to joining either bloc.
Yamina leader Naftali Bennett has stated that he will not join the coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, even if he did, the right-wing bloc would still have only 58 mandates – 3 short of the benchmark 61-MK criterion necessary to form a government.
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