Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival Benny Gantz rejects the offer to form a coalition government, following the closely-fought parliamentary elections.

Near-complete official results today confirmed a deadlock in Israel’s general election this week, putting Benny Gantz’s party as the largest but without an obvious path to form a majority coalition.

The results from Israel’s election committee showed Gantz’s centrist Blue and White with 33 seats out of 120 and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud with 31.

Final results will be published on Wednesday, it said, and there could be changes before then. The committee said the results did not include 14 polling stations where verifications were still ongoing.Israeli media said that meant 99.8 percent of the votes had been counted.