The public is struggling to have faith in the Center-Left government, a poll that aired on Channel 12 News on Monday showed.
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The Midgam survey, conducted among 502 Israeli voters, found that only 14% of the public believes Yamina leader Naftali Bennett is fit to hold the position of prime minister – a far cry from Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who garnered the support of 40% of the respondents.
Some 24% said they thought PM-designate Yair Lapid was fit for office, and 8% said they had no opinion on the matter.
Gauging the public's overall approval of the Center-Left government, which was only sworn in three weeks ago, the poll found that only 12% of the public were "very happy" with its performance. Some 33% said they were "happy" with the government, and 45% said they were "fairly happy" with it.
Some 45% of respondents said they were "somewhat unhappy" with the coalition's performance, 20% were "unhappy" with it, 25% were "very unhappy" with it, and 10% said they had no opinion on the matter.
Asked to rank the new government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, 9% said it was "very good," followed by "good" (40%), "fairly good" (49%), "fairly bad" (38%), "bad" (19%) and "very bad" (19%).
Finally, were elections held at this time, Channel 12 News predicted that Likud would win 30 Knesset seats, followed by Yesh Atid (19), Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party Shas (9), Blue and White (8), Labor (8) Yamina (8), Ashkenazi Haredi party United Torah Judaism (7), Yisrael Beytenu (7), the Joint Arab List (6), Religious Zionist Party (5), New Hope (5), Ra'am (4), and Meretz (4).
This would give the Center-Left coalition 63 seats, the right-wing bloc 51, and leave the Joint Arab List outside of any bloc.
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