{"id":36611,"date":"2012-05-07T05:23:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T05:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/?p=36611"},"modified":"2012-05-07T05:23:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T05:23:58","slug":"israels-netanyahu-calls-early-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2012\/05\/israels-netanyahu-calls-early-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Netanyahu calls early elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_36612\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2012\/05\/BENJAMIN-NETANYAHU1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2012\/05\/BENJAMIN-NETANYAHU1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BENJAMIN-NETANYAHU\" width=\"408\" height=\"245\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2012\/05\/BENJAMIN-NETANYAHU1.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2012\/05\/BENJAMIN-NETANYAHU1-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\/ AFP FILE<\/p><\/div>TEL AVIV, May 7 &#8211; Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced early elections, suggesting they would be held ahead of the scheduled October 2013 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want there to be a year-and-a-half of political instability accompanied by blackmail and populism. I&#8217;d prefer a short electoral campaign of four months that will ensure political stability,&#8221; he told a meeting of his Likud party in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu&#8217;s address, which included a laundry list of his achievements in three years of government, failed to give a definitive date for the vote, which he is expected to comfortably win.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials, including his coalition chairman Zeev Elkin, had earlier said there was consensus among most of the government on a September 4 date.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to AFP after Netanyahu&#8217;s address, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz declined to say whether that date still stands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The elections will apparently be in September. The Likud will win and the prime minister will form the next government,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu&#8217;s address nonetheless ended months of speculation about whether he would seek to bring forward the elections in a bid to bolster his position and capitalise on his popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Observers have long suggested he would seek to shore up his standing ahead of painful budget cuts expected later this year and the US presidential election in November.<\/p>\n<p>His decision also comes amid a fight within his coalition over a contentious law allowing ultra-Orthodox Jews to defer their military service.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has pledged to replace the law, which expires this year, but is caught between the staunchly secular Yisrael Beitenu, which opposes the rule, and the ultra-Orthodox factions in his coalition.<\/p>\n<p>But polls show that he could hardly have picked a better time to seek re-election, with surveys showing he easily outstrips his rivals for the office of prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>A poll published in the Haaretz daily on Thursday showed Netanyahu commands more support than his next three rivals put together, with 48 percent of Israelis backing his re-election.<\/p>\n<p>His Likud party also looks set to increase its standing in the 120-seat Knesset and have its choice of parties with which to form a coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Polls, including a survey published by the Maariv daily on Friday, consistently show Likud netting around 31 seats, up from its current 27.<\/p>\n<p>The Maariv poll showed the Labour party taking 18 seats, up from the 13 it won in the last elections, with Yisrael Beitenu seeing its 15 seats fall to 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Kadima party, which won the most seats in the last election but failed to form a coalition, looks set for a crushing defeat, with its 28 seats reduced to just 11.<\/p>\n<p>The newly formed centrist Yesh Atid (There is a Future) is also expected to win around 11 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Aviad Natovitz, a Likud member from Petach Tikva near Tel Aviv, expressed the party&#8217;s prevailing confidence as he waited for Netanyahu&#8217;s speech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elections now or in six months or a year would give more or less the same result,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The Likud will form the next government because there is no alternative on the left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest uncertainty surrounding the vote is the shape of Netanyahu&#8217;s eventual coalition, with the premier pledging Sunday to form a broad government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need a big, strong Likud. We will form a government as large as possible to assure the future of Israel,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show the smaller conservative and religious parties Netanyahu is in government with now will win enough seats to rejoin him in power if he chooses.<\/p>\n<p>But Labour, Kadima and Yesh Atid have also expressed some willingness in joining a new Netanyahu government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV, May 7 &#8211; Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced early elections, suggesting they would be held ahead of the scheduled October 2013 deadline. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want there to be a year-and-a-half of political instability accompanied by blackmail and populism. 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