Netanyahu Signs Vote-sharing Deal With Far-right, Kahanist Alliance Ahead of March Election
Likud strikes deal with Religious Zionism and reserves spot on its election roster for the party, made up of hard-right parties that united at his request
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party signed on Wednesday a surplus vote agreement with the far-right Religious Zionism party ahead of Israel's March election.
According to the agreement, if the combined "surplus" votes – those that don't add up to a full Knesset seat – of two parties add up to an extra seat, that seat goes to the party with the greater number of surplus votes, which is usually the bigger of the two parties.