{"id":1537,"date":"2015-03-19T12:31:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2015-03-19T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:31:36","slug":"israeli-pm-netanyahus-ruling-likud-party-wins-over-zionist-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/israeli-pm-netanyahus-ruling-likud-party-wins-over-zionist-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli PM Netanyahu\u2019s ruling Likud party wins over Zionist Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Results released by the Israeli Central Elections Committee show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s ruling right-wing Likud party has won in general elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u201calmost final\u201d figures released on Thursday indicate that Likud party won 30 of the 120 parliament seats, while the opposition Zionist Union gained 24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Official results are expected to be published on March 25, after complaints of voting irregularities are investigated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Preliminary data released shortly after the vote on March 17 showed the premier\u2019s party was ahead by five seats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Ynetnews, Israeli police opened 51 investigations earlier this week related to alleged vote fraud ranging from impersonation, stolen ballots and threats against ballot officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Netanyahu declared victory prior to the release of the preliminary results. He said he already reached out to leaders of smaller parties in the wider right-wing bloc and urged them to quickly set up a coalition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pre-election polls had predicted a defeat for the premier, who has been lately facing growing criticism for his handling of domestic and foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the elections, some 5,881,696 Israelis voted in 10,372 polling stations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SZH\/HJL\/HMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results released by the Israeli Central Elections Committee show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s ruling right-wing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[72,26,356],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-elections","tag-israel","tag-middle-east"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Israel-Elections.jpg?fit=670%2C344&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-oN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}