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Israel’s Election Produces No Clear Winner, High-Stakes Coalition Race Begins
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Israel’s Election Produces No Clear Winner, High-Stakes Coalition Race Begins

Israel’s October 27 election produced no clear winner, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-led bloc nor former military chief Gadi Eisenkot’s centrist Yashar-led bloc securing the 61 seats needed for a majority. Preliminary results indicate Likud and allies won 53 seats, Yashar and allies 48, and Arab-led parties 19. Eisenkot declared the election a rejection of “the culture of lies, of failure, of division and incitement,” saying, “We have made history.”

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Israeli Exit Polls Suggest Opposition Edges Ahead of Netanyahu
Middle East

Israeli Exit Polls Suggest Opposition Edges Ahead of Netanyahu

Exit polls in Israel’s first election since the October 2023 Hamas attacks suggest opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc has edged slightly ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, with Eisenkot’s bloc projected to win 52 of the 120 Knesset seats, compared to 50 for Netanyahu’s religious right-wing alliance. The results, published by Israeli news outlets including Channel 12 and Channel 13, indicate no clear victor and set the stage for a complex coalition-building process.

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Israel Election Ends in Deadlock, No Bloc Near Majority
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Israel Election Ends in Deadlock, No Bloc Near Majority

Israel’s October 27 election ended in a political stalemate, with exit polls showing neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main rival, Gadi Eisenkot, securing the 61 seats needed to form a majority government. Netanyahu’s bloc was projected to win 50 seats, while Eisenkot’s opposition bloc took 52 to 53, according to multiple Israeli media outlets. Arab parties, including the Joint List and Raam, were projected to win 17 to 18 seats combined, their strongest showing in Israeli history.

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Serbia’s Vucic Concedes Election to Student-Led Movement
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Serbia’s Vucic Concedes Election to Student-Led Movement

Serbia’s long-serving leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat on Sunday to a student-led opposition movement in a snap parliamentary election that marked a seismic political shift. Vucic, whose Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) had dominated Serbian politics for 14 years, said his opponents in the Students’ List were projected to win between 135 and 140 of the 250 parliamentary seats. “The Students’ List has won,” Vucic said at his party’s election night event, though he blamed “independent media,” “unnamed European countries,” and an “American deep state” for the loss.

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Bulgaria’s presidential election heads to runoff after record-low turnout
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Bulgaria’s presidential election heads to runoff after record-low turnout

Bulgaria’s presidential election will go to a runoff on November 1 after no candidate won a majority and turnout fell to a record low of under 40%. Exit polls showed incumbent President Iliana Yotova with 35–47% of the vote, and former caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov with 28–33.5%. The vote was held amid rising economic hardship, inflation, and drone attacks on Black Sea shipping that killed at least two dozen international seafarers. The government said the attacks “benefit Russia,” but has not directly blamed Moscow. Both candidates condemned the strikes and called for stronger maritime security, with Bulgaria seeking assistance from its allies.

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