Israel's election leaves no majority, and a dilemma

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Jerusalem today, Israel is waking to an election with no majority: Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc won fifty-three seats, and sixty-one are needed to govern.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFifty-three is a strong showing. I'd call it a mandate for a coalition-building season.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe opposition under Gadi Eisenkot has forty-eight, and Arab parties won nineteen, their best result in any Knesset election.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMr. Eisenkot's bloc, at forty-eight, looks short of sixty-one without them, and that's the real headache, which the Guardian has put to the question of whether they will govern together at all.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo everybody's a little bit right.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDemocrats chairman Yair Golan says the opposition bloc reached sixty-five seats with the Arab parties.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSome claim electoral interference, while Israel's Election Committee says it was conducted lawfully.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHonestly, if no one can form a government, Axios says that's a fifth election in under two and a half years.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's loyalty to a format, Gloria.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFinal results are due to be certified by Wednesday.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorVoters have had five elections to say what they want, and so far the answer is a recount of the question.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSeason five is basically already renewed.