In preparation for the Likud primaries, MK Sa'ar argues that despite attempts to show that he has no majority, he receives broad support for the movement. There is no way he will get the 23rd Knesset trust, ”he added

• Gideon Sa'ar // Photo by Hertzi Shapira

Knesset Member Gideon Sa'ar opens fire on the way to primaries in the Likud. In an interview Thursday morning for the Decelsgal program in Network B, Sa'ar said he was confident that primaries would be held in two weeks, despite Knesset member David Bitten's attempts to gather signatures at the Likud to prevent internal elections within the movement.

"The Likud Center announced that MK Bitan's proposal will not be raised today at the Center meeting," Sa'ar said. "The movement has a constitution and there is a way to change the constitution. MK Biten's behavior is inconsistent with the Likud constitution, which states that before the elections, Likud's chairman will be elected in the general elections. There is a way to do that. "Sa'ar added that he has no ability to know if Netanyahu is behind Bitten's move.

MK Sa'ar rejects claims that he gets most of his support from left-wing parties and, he said, "brutal pressures are being put on the Likud's local authorities by civil servants. Nevertheless, you can see many who boldly say they support Gideon Sa'ar. "He added that" people want to convince the public that there is only one person in the State of Israel who can head it. And I say that's not true. In the current situation, it's also not about the reality we are experiencing. "

"The political system in Israel has dropped to a low," Sa'ar attacked. "From that moment, the only thing he thought was to stop the deterioration, that a government would be set up here to address citizens' problems, to unite this people instead of widening the rips in any election campaign. I can do that."

Saar this week at the Likud Center // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon

Regarding attempts to get a majority of 61 signatures to the right to prevent the third election, Sa'ar said, "There is no way to organize 61 signatures in a regime where you are sent by a political movement and then hand in the mandates in the way you decide independently. It's not a real thing. Three weeks ago, I suggested a way to avoid the election. I proposed to hold the primaries even before the end of the 21 days. And here we see that the primaries can be held within two weeks. If they had accepted, we may have been in a completely different situation today. And it didn't matter to me because I knew it was important to stop the election, which was much less interesting in the past Whatever happens in the future. If there is no change, the same will happen. "

On Netanyahu's prediction that in the third election 300,000 Likud voters will remain in their homes last time, Sa'ar responded: "This is an estimate that is not even based on one of the hundreds of public opinion polls published in Israel in the last six months, and not on the public dynamics that exist today."

Commenting on the indictments filed against Prime Minister Netanyahu, Sa'ar made it clear: "The legislature has consciously stated that the role of the prime minister is overweighting the people as reflected in the Knesset's confidence. The problem at the moment is that the prime minister cannot accept the Knesset's confidence. 21 and not of the 22nd Knesset, and there is no realistic chance that he will gain the confidence of the 23rd Knesset. The prime minister, with all his impressive capabilities and his great rights - is blocked. The question of whether this should also be a block to the national camp and Likud and to a gender that also has a majority in the Knesset And in the people and supposed to give it up voluntarily and maybe also cause positions that are not positions of the majority of the public to lead the other party to John ".