Beating the odds, the Likud won the early parliamentary elections and Bibi, such as names its supporters, is able to form a fourth time the government of Israel.
He has to get to work, once proclaimed the official results as soon as the president Reuven Rivlin called the will to do so. He wishes to complete the formation of the government within two to three weeks.
"The citizens of Israel expect us we quickly formed a responsible government that will work for them, and that's what we'll do."
Netanyahu has claimed victory in last night. In the end, he would get 23.26% of the vote (29 seats) against 18.73% (24 seats) for the Zionist Union of Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni.
The Labour leader, Herzog recognized the victory of Netanyahu this morning:
"I talked to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I congratulated him, I would say something to the Israeli people, the challenges remain the same problems as nothing has changed. Tzipi Livni and I will continue to lead the Union sionary with strength and determination, we are an alternative. "
What alliances for Likud?
One of the big questions is what Netanyahu will build alliance: a right-wing coalition could further complicate the strained relations with much of the international community.
Netanyahu has already contacted the Jewish homeland, a religious nationalist party credited with 8 seats, as well as ultra-orthdoxes parties Shas and United List of Torah (7 seats each) to constitute a majority.
Also according to the Likud, he also contacted Israel Beiteinu, the nationalist party of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (6 seats).
And he would have also met with another potential ally, Moshe Kahlon, a former Likud head of a new party called to have a social purpose (10 seats).
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