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ISRAEL

Parties deadlocked after repeat election

Israel's two main political parties were deadlocked on Wednesday after an unprecedented repeat election, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing an uphill battle to hold onto his job. The election's seeming political kingmaker, Yisrael Beiteinu party chairman Avigdor Lieberman, said he will insist upon a secular unity government between Netanyahu's Likud and Benny Gantz's Blue and White parties. Based on partial results, the two parties have each won 32 seats in the 120-seat parliament. Without Lieberman's endorsement, both parties appear to have fallen well short of securing a parliamentary majority.