The state comptroller’s report citing excessive spending in the Prime Minister’s Office seems to have cost Likud seats.
While Likud received 27 seats in last week’s Maariv poll, Menachem Lazar’s poll in the Maariv Weekend shows a sharp drop down to 22 seats, as Labor/The Movement receives 24.
After two weeks of 11 and 12 seats, Bayit Yehudi is showing an increase this week to 13, still far from the 16 seats it was receiving for a number of consecutive weeks. Completing the right-wing bloc is Yisrael Beitenu with 5 seats and Yachad with 4 for a right-wing total of 44 seats.
In the left-wing camp, Meretz has 6 seats and the Arab Bloc 12, bringing them to 42 after adding Labor/The Movement.
The centrist camp has 20 seats which includes Yesh Atid (12) and Kulanu (8).
The chareidi camp has 14 seats including seven each for both Yahadut Hatorah and Shas.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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What is really costing them seats are two other sentiments in the country:
1) He has failed ,again, to address socioeconomic topics
If he wants to win, Likud ought to return to being the party of the hard working poor and lower middle class after a long hiatus.
2) People seem more or less willing to give him another term,but they wish for some sense that he understands that sooner or later he is prepared to relinquish the PM and eventually will retire.That he is that knows that he is not Dictator for life