Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a><\/b> will seek re-election this year, the Likud party announced today.<\/p>\n
This follows statements by U.S. President Donald Trump that he is unsure whether the Israeli<\/b> prime minister will run again. <\/p>\n
In a brief statement, Likud said Netanyahu will run in the election<\/b> and, God willing, will win. At present, no elections have been officially called in Israel, but they should be held by October<\/b>. <\/p>\n
Earlier, the chief Washington correspondent for the ABC<\/b> television network, Jonathan Karl, posted on X that Trump told him he did not know whether Netanyahu would run in the election. “I don’t know, he’s had an amazing career. He wants to continue,”<\/b> the US president commented. <\/p>\n
This year’s elections in Israel will be the first held in the country since the unprecedented attack by Hamas<\/b> on Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, considered Israel’s worst security blunder<\/b>. <\/b>In response, the Israeli military launched a wide-ranging operation against the Gaza Strip.<\/b><\/p>\n
Polls indicate that the ruling coalition will fail to garner a majority in the next election<\/b>. A poll published yesterday (Tuesday) by the Jerusalem-based think tank Israel Democracy Institute said 61% of Israelis believe Netanyahu should not be a candidate. <\/p>\n
But polls suggest that even a potential coalition of opposition parties would fail to win a majority of seats in parliament<\/b> unless it formed a coalition with Arab parties, something that opposition party leaders have already rejected. <\/p>\n
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