The Likud is gaining ground while rivals New Hope and Yamina are slipping down in the polls, a Channel 12 News survey found Tuesday.
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Israelis will head to the polls on March 23 for the fourth time in two years. With polls projecting both political blocs will struggle to stitch together a coalition, many political pundits predict that Israel could be facing a series of back-to-back elections.
According to Channel 12 News, were the elections held at this time, Likud would win 30 Knesset seats – up to mandates from most polls in the recent weeks. Yesh Atid slips to 18 seats, followed by Yamina (10), New Hope (10), the Joint Arab List (8), Shas (8), Yisrael Beytenu (7), United Torah Judaism (7), Labor (6), the Religious Zionist Party (4), Meretz (4), Blue and White (4) and Ra'am (4).
As in all polls held since the elections were called, the Economic party fails to cross the four-seat electoral threshold.
Asked who they think is best suited for the role of the prime minister, 37% of respondents named Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 21% favored Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid, 10% named Yamina leader Naftali Bennett, and 9% chose New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar.
Some 16% said none of the major party leaders should be the prime minister, and 7% said they had no opinion on the matter.
The survey was conducted by a Midgam Polling Institute among a representative sample of 500 eligible voters and has a statistical margin of error of 4.4%.
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