A stable government foundation may not be created this time either, but “the right wing will win anyway”, says senior researcher Timo R. Stewart. According to him, there is no certainty about the start of the arms aid that Ukraine needs from Israel.
The fifth parliamentary election in just under four years will be held in Israel next Tuesday. The party field is motley, but to put it simply, the former prime minister is on the opposite side Benjamin Netanyahu the bloc of right-wing and religious parties and the group of left-wing, centrist and right-wing parties opposing him.
Collected from the last mentioned group Naphtali Bennett’s the government broke up last summer, after which the minister of foreign affairs became the head of the executive ministry and the face of the coalition Yair Lapid.
In opinion polls, the support of the two blocs has been quite equal, which, according to the Finnish researcher, does not bode well for those hoping for a stable government. That would perhaps be more likely if Netanyahu’s supporters managed to get even a meager majority in the parliament, the Knesset.
– Then he would have four parties in the government, all of which are former government partners. It could very well be that it would be a government lasting several years, estimates a senior researcher Timo R. Stewart From the Foreign Policy Institute.
According to many estimates, the Israeli elections are largely about whether to be for or against Netanyahu. According to critics, the former prime minister wants to protect himself from corruption charges, but Netanyahu is also clearly Israel’s most popular politician.
Poverty is unevenly distributed
According to Stewart, many parties in Israel focus on promoting the position of a certain segment of the population. More than half of the parties with an ideological agenda are right-wing.
– In any case, the right wing will win this election just like before, says Stewart.
According to him, not much has been said about major economic and political issues in the Israeli elections. There would be ingredients, because the cost of living has been rising for a long time and up to 30 percent of citizens suffer from inadequate food security.
According to Stewart, the explanation may lie in the fact that poverty is not evenly distributed, but that the Palestinian citizens of Israel and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities suffer the most.