Сонгуулийн санал хураалтын дүн эцсийн байдлаар тодорхойгүй байгаа тул улс төрийн намууд засгийн газар бүрдүүлэхийн тулд хэлэлцээ хийж эхэлсэн байна.
Израйлд болсон сонгуулийн санал хураалтын дүн 91 хувьтай гараад байгаа бөгөөд одоогоор Ерөнхий сайд Беньямин Нетаньяхугийн тэргүүлсэн блок 53 суудал, түүний өрсөлдөгч Гади Эйзенкотын бүлэг 48 суудал, харин Палестины намууд түүхэн дээд амжилт буюу 19 суудал тус тус авахаар байна. Кнессетэд олонх болоход шаардлагатай 61 суудлыг аль ч тал авч чадаагүй тул засгийн газар байгуулах үйл явц хэдэн долоо хоног үргэлжилж болзошгүй байна.
Сөрөг хүчний “Ардчилсан нам”-ын удирдагч Яир Голан пүрэв гарагт Гади Эйзенкот болон “Б’Яхад” намын төлөөлөгчидтэй уулзаж, эвслийн засгийн газар байгуулах асуудлаар анхны албан ёсны хэлэлцээг эхлүүлэхээр төлөвлөж байна. Одоогоор Голан нь Палестины иргэдийн төлөөлөл бүхий намуудтай хамтран ажиллахаа илэрхийлсэн цорын ганц сөрөг хүчний удирдагч болоод байна. Израйлын Ерөнхийлөгч Исаак Херцог улс төрийн тогтворгүй байдлаас сэргийлж, дахин сонгууль явуулахгүйн тулд намуудыг нээлттэй байхыг уриалжээ.
Палестины олонх бүхий “Joint List” намын тэргүүн Юсеф Жабарин Нетаньяхугийн засгийн газрыг солихын тулд сөрөг хүчинтэй хамтран ажиллахад бэлэн байгаа ч эвсэлд албан ёсоор нэгдэхгүй гэдгээ мэдэгдлээ. Үүний зэрэгцээ, Израйлын Сонгуулийн төв хороо “Ликуд” намаас ирүүлсэн гомдлын дагуу Палестины намуудыг сонгуулийн шударга байдлыг алдагдуулсан гэх мэдэгдлийг шалгахаар болсон байна.
НҮБ-ын Хүний эрхийн дээд комиссар Волкер Турк шинээр байгуулагдах засгийн газар олон улсын хууль тогтоомжийг дээдэлж, үйл ажиллагааны чиглэлээ эрс өөрчилнө гэж найдаж байгаагаа илэрхийлжээ. Тэрээр Израйлыг олон улсын хүмүүнлэгийн болон хүний эрхийн хуулиар хүлээсэн үүргээ биелүүлэхийг сануулсан байна.
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Key events
Final ballots being tallied with results expected to show no clear winner
Hello and welcome to our continuing coverage of the Israeli election.
With 91% of votes now counted, the current results show prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc projected to receive 53 seats, with the grouping of his opponent Gadi Eisenkot on 48 and the Palestinian parties on track to receive a record 19 seats.
The final tally of absentee ballots is not expected to significantly shift the results, and with no grouping managing to reach the 61 seats needed for a majority in the Knesset, Israel could be in for weeks of uncertainty, as both sides try to gather enough support to form a government.
Yair Golan, the leader of the centre-left Democrats, a junior partner in Eisenkot’s bloc, has told Israeli media that he will meet leaders on Thursday for coalition talks. According to the Times of Israel, he will hold talks with Eisenkot, the leading opposition candidate and chair of the Yashar party, and Yair Lapid, the number-two in the opposition B’Yachad party.
This would mark the official start of coalition talks, and Golan has been the only opposition leader so far backing working with the parties led by Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, voiced hope that the country could avoid a second election. “We must do everything we can, certainly after yesterday, to avoid another round of elections,” said Herzog, who is tasked with determining which candidate to tap to form a government, urging parties to keep “an open mind”.
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Israel’s future hangs in the balance after it became clear that Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his governing majority. His political fate now depends on whether opposition Jewish parties are prepared to forge a common front with Palestinian parties, whose support surged in Tuesday’s historic elections. Indeed, Gadi Eisenkot and his allies face a clear choice: either make a pact with Arab Israeli parties heading for a record result of 19 seats, or hand Netanyahu a political lifeline in the form of new elections or a unity government.
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Yousef Jabareen, head of the Arab-majority Joint List, said the Israeli public had voted for new leadership and “anyone who wants to offer a substantive and genuine alternative to Netanyahu’s blood-soaked government will have to talk to us”. He told AFP that while he was willing to cooperate with an opposition-led government to unseat Netanyahu, he was not open to joining such a coalition outright. The ad hoc support of Palestinian lawmakers could enable Eisenkot to maintain a minority government, although few observers believe such an arrangement would survive for long.
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Israel’s Central Elections Committee said it had received a Likud party complaint alleging that Arab parties had compromised election integrity and would examine the claims as part of its routine post-election review. Netanyahu’s party responded to partial election results showing Arab-led parties could play a king-making role in forming a new government by accusing them – without evidence – of “stealing” the election and demanding that the police and Shin Bet security service investigate the allegations.
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UN rights chief Volker Turk has said that he hopes the next Israeli government will “change course massively” and respect international law. “The message is: don’t continue the current course of warfare where you think you are above international law, because I think that’s what we have frankly seen in the current environment,” Turk told reporters in New York. He added: “Israel has its obligations under international law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and they need to respect them, and I hope that the next government will do precisely that and change course massively.”
