An important lesson from this week’s Israeli election: in complex multi-bloc political systems, the government that forms really is at least as much about the inter-party bargaining between elections as it is about the elections themselves.
Yesterday I noted the (small) changes in votes for the right, Here I will look at all the blocs. Note: blocs, plural–point being, there is no single left or center-left bloc to oppose the right or replace it as government. Caution: the 2015 results are not yet official.
Labor appears to have won 15 seats in 2015, and Tzipi Livni’s HaTnuah is on 6. So the blended list of these two forces (branded Zionist Union) won 24. As separate parties in 2013, these parties won 15 and 6, respectively.
By contrast, the main parties of the right, Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu, and Bayit Yehudi, appear to have won 44 seats in this election. They won…
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