According to a Channel 2 News report quoting a “senior right-wing official”, right-wing parties are talking unity amid polls that continue to show Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid will pose an electoral threat in the next Knesset elections.
The source is quoting saying that Likud, Yisrael Beitenu and the Likud parties are monitoring weekly polls with growing concern, aware that all three or at the very least two of their parties will have to merge to gain addition votes in the next Knesset elections to prevent Yesh Atid to emerge as the largest party in Knesset.
Likud strategists are also juggling other threats including former Likud Minister Gideon Saar who is rumored to be working to reenter the political arena heading his own party, as well as former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who is viewed in being in a position to launch yet another party.
A poll conducted earlier in January 2017 showed if elections were held today, Lapid’s party would earn 27 seats and Likud would be left in second place with only 23 seats.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The source is quoting saying that Likud, Yisrael Beitenu and the Likud parties
Huh? What’s the third party?
Why aren’t the cheradim and the religious Zionists uniting against lapid ?
Lapid is a greater danger to the observant then to the right wing in Israel.
The sooner efforts are made to stop him the more the likelihood of success.
His best chance of election victory is not being taken seriously.