Netanyahu's head of staff assured MKI that a picture for the post immediately after the party's presidency • Barkat is also appointed minister
Soon Hothotli? // Photo by Yossi Seliger
The Likud party is embarking on a fascinating week in which pre-election elections will be held for the party's leadership. After many years of disinterest, Gideon Sa'ar's confrontation with Netanyahu wakes up the Likud area. Until the primaries on Thursday this week, the two are expected to continue to hold conferences across the country.
Meanwhile, while Likud ministers and MKs are traveling with the prime minister across the country, and some MKs support Gideon Sa'ar, two Likud leaders, Yuli Edelstein and Gilad Arden, continue to fill their mouths, not to attend conferences or express a position or support for Netanyahu or Saar .
Netanyahu's head of staff, Asher Hayun, recently spoke with Tzipi Hotbeli and told her that the prime minister intends to appoint her to the position of Sara immediately after the primaries. Anyone who is yet to take up a ministerial position is Nir Barkat, the only one in the top 10 in the Likud, except Gideon Sa'ar, who has no role in the government. Barkat is considered an enthusiastic supporter of the prime minister and is widely praised in public.
Hotlowley confirmed this, saying that this matter should wait until after the primaries. Hotbelly added in the preliminary elections that "the Likud movement must understand that today's decision is against the entire Israeli left's attack, on the legitimacy of the Likud to go after a leader who has triumphed time after time. The Left's boycott is an illegitimate boycott."
She added that "Israeli law allows him to continue in office until the truth is clarified. In addition, many of the suspicions against him are precedent, much of the public feels that there is a mark of purpose, and also the issue of flaws in the investigations. Likud members should consider who the best leader has capabilities and achievements."
On Sa'ar's deal, Hotobli said: "The Likud is a democratic party, but one should choose not the candidate the Left wants in the Likud but the one we want. They want every other person who is not Netanyahu."
MK Michal Shir, from Gideon Sa'ar camp, said yesterday: "We are in a situation where Likud officials need to decide whether they support the path or support the leader. Unfortunately, Netanyahu is blocked. Block against Gantz, block against Lieberman, block against the establishment of the right-wing government or unity. We went and supported him, but at the end of the day, to our delight, the Likud movement is growing another leader, Gideon Sa'ar, who can form a government. Netanyahu lowers the right bloc, and storm raises the right bloc. Gideon Sa'ar is more right-wing than Netanyahu. All senior members of the party are less popular among Likud voters than Gideon Sa'ar.
Likud is also talking about the tribunal's decision that primaries should be held for the Likud list, and not just the party leader. A hearing and decision on the matter is expected to take place on Monday. It is believed that the tribunal will say that according to the party's constitution it is necessary to make primaries for the list, but because of the great resources that must be invested in such a short time, this time will not be possible to edit primaries.
A Likud official said today: "There are three weeks to submit lists, there is no technical feasibility to edit primaries. There are ballot deployment, fifty candidates and fifty more in the districts, appeals in the courts, and it also costs a lot of money for the party. The court will probably consider this. ".
