The battle for Likud leaders: A battle between Saar and Netanyahu over the primaries

Prime Minister Sharon has been holding party primaries for two weeks now. On the other hand, his rival Saar is pushing for Cayman at a later date - late December or early January. MK Kish supporting Saar: "Primaries must be held on January 6 to allow fair elections." Center Chairman Haim Katz: "Every decision requires agreement"

The battle for Likud leaders: A battle between Saar and Netanyahu over the primaries

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's primaries for Likud leadership - battle for the deadline: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is running for prime ministerial primaries after the Knesset's dissolution and wants to hold the elections in two weeks - on December 23. However, MK Gideon Sa'ar is pushing to hold the elections later, in late December or early January.

MK Yoav Kish, who supports the party mayor, tweeted on Twitter that he opposes the primaries on Netanyahu's proposed date and that "the primaries date will be 6.1 to allow fair and democratic elections." He noted that "the primaries are always set three weeks after the center's decision. In response, Likud Center Chairman Haim Katz announced that "there is no summary on the date of the primaries. Any decision on the matter requires joint agreement."

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Pushing for party-led primaries. Netanyahu (Photo: Reuven Castro)

PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset Meeting, Knesset, November 18, 2019 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The election date for the primaries should be decided jointly and in agreement by the movement's chairman and the center's chairman, and will be submitted for approval by the Likud Center, probably next week. As long as Katz, who is also close to the storm, opposes Netanyahu's early date, there will be no agreement on the date.

Yesterday, Netanyahu pledged to hold Likud primaries if a general election was decided, thus diverting himself from the initiative of Knesset member David Bitten, who collects signatures of center members to cancel the party's primaries and freeze Netanyahu's place as party chairman. He said that "the prime minister is not acting against the primaries. If a general election is decided, there will be primaries for Likud and Prime Minister Netanyahu will win big. "

Knesset Member Gideon Sa'ar, who plans to run for Netanyahu in the elections, tweeted in response that he "congratulates Prime Minister Netanyahu for his announcement on the holding of agreed primaries for the party." The Likud is the largest political movement in Israel and a glorious democratic tradition. We will establish a positive, respectful and clean electoral system in which I will present clear plans and positions in all policy areas, "he said. Likud members will decide." However, Bitten is expected to continue the work of gathering the signatures of the members of the Center to demand the convening of a center to vote on the cancellation of the primaries.

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Interested in primaries in late December or early January. Saar (Photo: Reuven Castro)

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In the backdrop of the fierce fight between the two for Likud leadership, the party's center on Sunday approved Netanyahu's motion and chairman of the Katz Center to cancel the Likud primaries in the next election and freeze the one that ran in the September elections. "We don't know yet if we will run for election and we are making a last effort to prevent That, "Netanyahu told members of the center.

In a vote at the Tel Aviv Expo, 800 members of the Center took part and only two expressed their opposition. In addition, a commitment was made to advance Norwegian law after the next elections - under which up to four ministers can resign from their positions in the Knesset, making way for more candidates on the list to join the Knesset. MKs aim to secure the loyalty of Knesset members in the Likud's back row Who are afraid of losing their place on the list if there is an election, and thwart the possibility of internal rebellion in the last 21-day period in which each MK can form a government with 61 signatures.