Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot for the parliamentary election as his son Yair stands behind him at a polling station in Jerusalem March 17, 2015.. (photo credit: REUTERS/SEBASTIAN SCHEINER/POOL)
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General elections will be called immediately after municipal elections are over, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon predicted on Tuesday as Israelis went to voting stations throughout the country to elect new mayors and local council heads.
“I predict that immediately after municipal elections, general elections will be announced,” Kahlon, chairman of the Kulanu Party and a member of the security cabinet,” told 101.5 Radio. “I predict the elections will be between February and March since I don’t see how the government will clear all of the obstacles it currently faces.”
Kahlon said that the obstacles include the haredi draft bill as well as new legislation needed to regulate conversion in the State of Israel.
On Monday, a senior member of the coalition said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a decision on when to hold elections after the municipal elections and depending on the outcome of the debate over the haredi draft bill.
Elections are currently set by law for Tuesday November 5. The chances of that happening though are extremely slim. It would require all the parties in the coalition to make compromises and pass the framework for drafting yeshiva students recommended by the IDF with little to no changes.
A poll taken earlier this month by Channel 2 found that if elections were held now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party would rise from its current 30 seats to 32, and former finance minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid would jump from 11 to 18 seats. It predicted that the Zionist Union would lose half of its mandates in the current Knesset, from 24 to 12.
The Joint List would win 12 seats, Bayit Yehudi 10, Kulanu and United Torah Judaism 7 each, Meretz and a new party led by MK Orli Levy-Abecasis 6 each, and Yisrael Beytenu and Shas 5 each.
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