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[The preliminary vote count for the Israeli Knesset election has been completed and the seats in the Knesset have been basically determined] On October 30, Israel’s Central Election Commission completed all preliminary vote counting for the current Knesset election and announced the preliminary vote count results. According to the results that included all special votes, the right-wing ruling coalition led by Israel's current Prime Minister Netanyahu won 53 seats, and the opposition camp led by former Chief of Staff of the Defense Forces Eisenkot won 48 seats. Arab parties that do not belong to the above two camps won 19 seats. No single camp currently has the parliamentary majority required to form a government, which is at least 61 seats. Judging from the votes obtained by specific parties, the right-wing Likud party led by Netanyahu won 27 seats and maintained its status as the largest party in the parliament; the Integrity Party led by Eisenkot won 21 seats and ranked second. In addition, the Solidarity Party, led by former Israeli Prime Ministers Bennett and Lapid, won 12 seats, and the Joint List, an alliance of Arab political parties, won 11 seats; the center-left Democratic Party and the Arab Party United Arab Party (Ram Party) each won 8 seats; the right-wing "Israel is Our Home" party, the far-right "Jewish Power" party and the ultra-Orthodox religious party "Union of Biblical Judaism" party each won 7 seats, and the far-right Religious Zionism Party and the ultra-Orthodox religious party Shas Party each won 6 seats. (CCTV News)
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