Former Likud party minister, Gideon Saar, who remains popular in the party as he makes his return to Knesset, attacked Ministers Naftali Bennet and Ayelet Shaked, the heads of the New Right party, for taking votes from Likud. Saar added “They were in Likud and wish to return to Likud,” adding, “There is no difference if one gives one’s vote to a party with six or five seats.”

According to the KAN Reshet Bet News report, the ministers are working to steal away Likud voters.

Speaking to students at an election-related assembly, Saar told his audience to vote Likud. “We have to learn from history, and it is not important that there are such large gaps today between the Likud as it is today and parties that want to take votes from the right,” Saar added, hinting to Bennet and Shaked: “The overt aspiration of their leaders is to join the Likud. They were in the Likud in the past and want to be in the Likud in the future.”

“There is a very simple thing – only a vote for the Likud will bring about the task of forming the government on the Likud candidate, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,” Saar said.

In response to one of the questions, Saar replied: “Look at the polls and you will see in this tight election campaign; whether you want the government to be formed by Ganz and Lapid, and do you believe that if that is the outcome then the national interest will be better served?”

He returns to Bennet and Shaked: “If you give your vote to a list that will be 6 seats or 5, there is no difference, but there can be one difference if the Likud is not strong enough that the task of assembling the government, it will be given to Lapid or Ganz. It is very important not to make this mistake.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)