Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party is projected to win 26 seats in the Knesset, increasing by three since a poll conducted last week, despite the Likud party capturing headlines this week with its primaries.
The findings come from a poll conducted for Maariv by Lazar Research, headed by Dr. Menachem Lazar, in cooperation with the Panel4All online respondents panel.
The Likud dropped by one seat and stands at 20 seats. However, due to the strengthening of Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism, the coalition bloc rose by one seat and reached 49 seats.
Following Eisenkot’s rise, the opposition bloc continued to climb and received 60 seats, just one seat short of a 61-seat majority coalition. The Reservists Party (Zionist Home) received only 2.9% support and did not cross the electoral threshold, after a series of polls in which it received four seats.
Other parties that failed to cross the threshold include the new party headed by Ofer Winter, Unity headed by Gilad Erdan, the new economic party headed by Prof. Yaron Zelicha, and Blue and White headed by Benny Gantz. Together, these parties are currently “wasting” the votes of 8.3% of all voters, equivalent to around 10 Knesset seats.
