Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party got the most votes in Israel’s regime election Tuesday.
Netanyahu’s Likud Beitenu won between 31 and 33 Knesset seats in the Israel`s regime election, TV exit polls reported, winning the most, as expected. Jewish Home, an extreme right party with a charismatic leader named Naftali Bennett, got between 11 and 12 seats.
But the Yesh Atid party, a new centrist movement devoted to helping the middle class and halting military draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox civilians, came in a surprising second place with at least 18 seats, according to the exit polls.
Netanyahu told weary but elated supporters early Wednesday he plans to form a government “as broad as possible” and pursue his goals with “many partners.”