http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0M90TL20150313(Reuters) - Israel's center-left opposition is poised for an upset victory in next week's parliamentary election, with the last opinion polls before Tuesday's vote giving it a solid lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party.
Final polls published by Israel's Channel 10 and Channel 2 on Friday evening respectively predicted the Zionist Union would win 24 and 26 seats against 20 and 22 for Netanyahu's Likud, echoing earlier surveys which all gave the opposition a clear lead.
Polls in two of Israel's leading newspapers predicted the Zionist Union would secure 25 or 26 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, against 21 or 22 for Likud. All polls in the past three days have given the same margin of victory.
No party has ever won an outright majority in Israel's 67-year history, making coalition-building critical to the formation of a government.
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His much-criticized speech to the U.S. Congress on March 3 appears to have marked a turning point. Rather than giving him an electoral boost, with his face on primetime TV, polls turned against him shortly after the event.
What a sanctimonious prick. Thought he could rally Israelis behind him by alienating their strongest ally by snubbing the President of the United States and his entire political party like that with his little stunt before Congress.
See ya Bibi! Time for some real reformers to take over, maybe give peace and reconciliation with the Palestinians a chance for a change, instead of constant encroachment with new settlements and needlessly raising tensions with their neighbors like Iran.
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