Kadima leads elections with 29 seats

Israeli sources reported on Wednesday at dawn that the Kadima party occupy the first place after winning 29 out of 120 Knesset seats.

The rival Likud party is only two seat behind, while the Labor party’s representation dropped to 13 seats.

The extremist right wing party of Avigdor Lieberman is expected to garner 15 Knesset seats and thus is expected to have a bigger influence of coalitions.

 Lieberman’s party does not recognize the rights of Arabs and Palestinians, and continuously calls for deporting them to nearby Arab countries.

Even if Livni is officially declared the winner, she must be able to gather a 61-seat coalition needed to form a government, Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported.

Haaretz said that according to the current exit polls, Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his right wing bloc will have 63-64 seats, while the camp of Tzipi Livni would win 56-57 seats.

The results indicate that even if the Kadima party won the polls with a larger number of seats, a coalition by the Likud and other rival parties could maintain a parliamentary majority.