內塔尼亞胡在以色列大選中獲勝
Benjamin Netanyahu has won a landslide victory in Tuesday’s national election, defeating decisively a challenge from centre-left opposition leader Isaac Herzog and putting the rightwing Israeli leader on track to serve a fourth term, poll results gathered overnight show.
初步民調結果顯示，以色列右翼領導人本雅明•內塔尼亞胡(Benjamin Netanyahu)在當日大選中獲得壓倒性勝利，大敗中左翼反對派領導人艾薩克•赫爾佐格(Isaac Herzog)，將第四次當選以色列總理。With 99.5 per cent of votes counted, Mr Netanyahu’s Likud party is on course to secure 30 seats — a quarter of the Knesset — with a commanding lead over the 24 garnered by Mr Herzog’s centre-left Zionist Union, a margin big enough to give him first crack at forming a new coalition.
在統計了99.5%的選票後，結果顯示，內塔尼亞胡領導的利庫德集團(Likud Party)有望獲得30個議會席位，佔以色列議會總席位的四分之一，遠高於赫爾佐格領導的中左翼政黨猶太復國主義聯盟(Zionist Union)獲得的24個席位，這一差距足以讓他有資格組建新的聯合政府。
After consulting with Likud and other parties, Reuven Rivlin, Israel’s president, will now ask the leader he considers best placed to form a coalition — almost certainly Mr Netanyahu — to begin building one.
在與利庫德以及其他黨派協商後，以色列總統魯文•裏夫林(Reuven Rivlin)現在將邀請他所認爲的最佳人選（幾乎肯定是內塔尼亞胡）開始組建聯合政府。
“Against all the odds, we’ve achieved a great victory for Likud,” Mr Netanyahu told supporters cheering him in Tel Aviv early on Wednesday morning as news of the victory came in.
在週三凌晨獲勝消息傳來時，內塔尼亞胡告訴向他歡呼的支持者們：“我們排除萬難取得了巨大勝利。”In a statement, Mr Netanyahu said he intended to form a government in weeks, and was already negotiating with the far-right pro-settler Jewish Home party led by Naftali Bennett and Jewish Orthodox religious parties. Another likely partner is hardline nationalist Avigdor Lieberman, formerly foreign minister, who is eyeing the defence ministry, and whose Yisrael Beiteinu party survived a corruption probe to enter the Knesset with 6 seats.
內塔尼亞胡在聲明中稱，他計劃在幾周後組建政府，同時他已在和由納夫塔利•貝內特(Naftali Bennett)領導的支持擴建定居點的極右翼政黨猶太家園黨(Jewish Home Party)和猶太教正統黨派協商。The results vindicates the high-stakes, divisive strategy pursued by Mr Netanyahu in the final days of campaigning, when he abandoned his commitment to peace talks aimed at creating a Palestinian state and made other statements described by critics as inflammatory.
大選結果證明，內塔尼亞胡在競選最後幾天實施的高風險、分裂性戰略是成功的，當時他放棄了致力於旨在建立巴勒斯坦國的和平談判的承諾，並發表了一些被批評者稱爲具有煽動性的言論。Mr Netanyahu’s victory comes at a time when its relations with US President Barack Obama’s administration are under serious strain and some European countries are contemplating a tougher stance towards Israel because of its failure to negotiate a peace deal with the Palestinians to create a state on lands Israel seized in the 1967 Six Day War.
在內塔尼亞胡獲勝之際，以色列與美國總統巴拉克•奧巴馬(Barack Obama)政府的關係正處於嚴重緊張狀態。一些歐洲國家也在考慮對以色列採取更強硬態度，因爲以色列未能與巴勒斯坦擬定和平協議，讓後者在以色列在1967年六日戰爭(Six Day War)期間奪取的土地上建立國家。
