With three weeks to go until the March 23 elections, a poll released on Monday showed that the Center-Left bloc could secure 62 mandates – enough to form a government.
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The poll, which aired on Tel Aviv-based 103FM Radio, was held by Panel Politics, and has a statistical margin of error of 4.3%.
The survey said that were elections held at this time, the Likud would win 28 Knesset seats, followed by Yesh Atid (19), New Hope (13), Yamina (11), the Joint Arab List (9), Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party Shas (8), Ashkenazi Haredi party United Torah Judaism (7), Yisrael Beytenu (7), Labor (6), Blue and White (4), the Religious Zionist Party (4), and Meretz (4).
In previous polls have shows, the Economic party and Arab party Ra'am fail to cross the four-seat electoral threshold.
These results give the right-wing bloc 47 seats, and even with Yamina's 11 mandates – an uncertainty giving party leader Naftali Bennett's recent statements – it still only comes to 58 seats, which is three seats short of the minimal requirement to form a coalition.
The Center-Left bloc, however, is able to secure 62 Knesset seats, putting over the 61-MK line.
The poll also gauged candidates' approval ratings, and for the first time in years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not have a clear advantage over his rivals.
According to 103FM, while 43% of respondents said they believed Netanyahu was best suited to be the prime minister, New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar enjoyed the supped of 42%.
Asked to choose between Netanyahu and Bennett, 40% chose Netanyahu and 36% favored Bennett. In a choice between Netanyahu and Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid, the former was favored by 50%, while the latter by 37%.
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