Exit polls predict slender win for Centrist Tzipi Livni in Israeli election by Rory McCarthy
Israeli elections tonight produced the tightest of races with early television exit polls putting Tzipi Livni, the centrist foreign minister, narrowly ahead of the rightwing opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu. Polls from three main television stations, broadcast moments after voting closed, all put Livni's Kadima party ahead by two seats, but they also predicted that rightwing parties had fared best overall. Livni was predicted as winning either 29 or 30 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.For months leading up to the election Netanyahu had been comfortably ahead in the polls, but his lead narrowed sharply in the final days. In part the rise of far-right leader Lieberman took votes away from the Likud party, although the right-wing as a whole looked set to dominate.
Note EU-Digest: Only the US Obama Government has the power to "throw water" on the hard-line right wingers in Israel who seem to be poised to form the next Israeli government.
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