Image caption, Mr Netanyahu’s fans cheered and danced when the exit surveys were revealed By Raffi Berg BBC News Online Middle East editor, Jerusalem Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on course for success in Tuesday’s elections, according to exit surveys. The surveys, which projection the result priorto authorities results, provide his conservative bloc a slim bulk of seats over his challengers. Such a outcome would mark a remarkable resurgence for Mr Netanyahu, fell last year after 12 straight years in power. “We are close to a huge success,” he informed his fans in Jerusalem. The election was extensively seen as a vote for or versus Mr Netanyahu’s return. Official results, which might still produce a various result, are anticipated in the coming hours. His primary competing, existing Prime Minister Yair Lapid, stated “nothing” was yet chose. But as the surveys were revealed at 22: 00 (20: 00 GMT), upbeat music burst from loud speakers at the main place of Mr Netanyahu’s Likud celebration in Jerusalem. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Mr Netanyahu is projection to change Yair Lapid, who fell him simply over a year ago Mr Netanyahu, 73, is one of Israel’s most questionable political figures, hated by numerous on the centre and left however loved by Likud’s grassroots advocates. He is a company fan of Israel’s settlement-building job in the West Bank, inhabited consideringthat
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