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Israel/Palestine

Mosby

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5. His party got 32% of the vote.

Reply to mahina (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 16, 2023, 03:16 PM

Jan 2023

Israel uses a coalition system, and he built a coalition with the religious and settler parties, bringing him slightly above the needed threshold. Israelis are afraid of a direct election system, they tried it once before and didn't like the result.

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