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Urgent: Voting starts in Israeli parliamentary elections

Xinhua, March 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Israeli voters started to cast their ballots Tuesday morning in an early parliamentary election which will decide whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightwing Likud will continue its hold on power.

Voting started at 7 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) Tuesday at 10,119 polling stations across the country and is due to end at 10 p.m. According to the Central Election Committee, there are around 5.8 million Israeli citizens eligible to vote in this election.

Vying for the 120 seats in the one-chamber parliament Knesset are 24 parties, of which opinion polls predict some 11 will make it into the Knesset.The opposition center-left Zionist Union is projected to be the largest party with around 25 seats,followed by the Likud with around 21 seats. Enditem