Israeli Election Update: Netanyahu Opens Gap in Polls
Written by: Aaron Katsman | January 23, 2009
Fresh polling coming on the heels of the war with Hamas shows that former PM Benjamin Netanyahu, has continued to hold a strong lead over his competitors.
According to a poll done by Globes: “…after the end of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza shows the right continuing to strengthen and leader of the opposition Benjamin Netanyahu consolidating his status as prime minister in waiting. If the elections were held today, Likud, according to the survey, would receive 32 out of the 120 Knesset seats, while the right wing block as a whole would receive 69 seats. This is all before campaigning, suspended by the war, begins in earnest.
Although the Likud has dropped one seat since last week’s poll, the gap that Netanyahu opened up on the ruling parties before the war has been maintained. Not only has Kadima, the ruling party, not benefited electorally from the war, but it even lost ground, and is down from 22 seats a week ago to 21 today.”
This is good news for the Israeli economy. A strong coalition led by Netanyahu will be able to pull Israel out of the economic crisis. Netanyahu’s approach of lower taxes, privatization and incentivizing entrepreneurs is the proven way to create growth. Not more government interference.
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