Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman, MK Avigdor Lieberman, ruled today (Tuesday) in a conversation with Ben Caspit and Moshe Klughaft on 103fm that the leaders of the center parties have no chance - "Not Benny Gantz, not Gilad and Yuli, not Yoaz and Hili. No chance." He added and warned that having multiple parties in the opposition bloc would lead to wasted votes.
""Voting for stable parties, and not voting for atmosphere parties, that's why we lost the last elections," Liberman warned. "I tell everyone: You had the opportunity to integrate into existing parties, but because of ambitions you decided to run. Don't interfere, you don't stand a chance. From what I've seen in the polls, none of them are passing, but they can deduct three seats from the productive and serving bloc.".
Lieberman added: "Everyone received proposals, and not just from me. All the parties were ready to adopt them - fair and generous proposals, but each went with his own ambition. Since 1977, I have counted 15 lists that arose out of nowhere and disappeared into nowhere: Miguel Yadin and D'Sh, Kadima, Ahora, Am Ehad, Am Aharen, the movement, pensioners, young people," Lieberman quipped. "Now too many things are at stake here.
""We are open and attentive, and we advise them not to do anything stupid. The last time, 10 seats were burned and went down the drain. Any list that doesn't pass the threshold is not counted in the surplus agreements - and that's it.".
Regarding the Likud primaries that took place yesterday, Lieberman found it difficult to praise: "I look at the national liberal movement, and I see the circus there. Imagine Uri Zvi Greenberg or Dr. Bader jumping on a trampoline there. Jabotinsky and Trumpeldor sanctified service to the homeland, and Netanyahu sanctifies evasion. They were all atheists, and today's Likud is Machal: a Haredi party lite.".
Regarding the composition of the Likud list, the Yisrael Beiteinu chairman said that Netanyahu built a list to lose. What guides him is how not to create 51% in the faction against him, and how not to form another faction that could receive recognition from the Knesset and withdraw. Not to lose a majority within the faction, he makes these calculations.".
Lieberman is already sewing suits: "Netanyahu knows the numbers well, and anyone who does in-depth surveys knows that they are different from what we see on television," he said.
He said the latest deep polls show a landslide victory for the opposition. "Right now the opposition is around 63 seats," he said.
Therefore, he believes that Gadi Eisenkot's statements about the possibility of forming a minority government are irrelevant. "There will be a crushing victory," he boasted.
According to the polls presented to him, Likud will be defeated and will receive only twenty seats, but he thinks that the change camp should not become complacent. "Increase voting in two centers of the Israeli mainstream - Gush Dan and the Sharon region. If we get to 76% there - the deal is done.".
