First publication: Netanyahu explores the possibility of a joint run of the right-wing bloc, except for the ultra-Orthodox

To Walla! NEWS has learned that the Prime Minister is looking through internal polls that the Likud has offered two options for running jointly with the right-wing parties, one in cooperation with the ultra-Orthodox parties and the other not to include Shas and Torah Jewry.

First publication: Netanyahu explores the possibility of a joint run of the right-wing bloc, except for the ultra-Orthodox

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking into the possibility of joint running of all right-wing parties together in the upcoming elections, with the exception of the ultra-Orthodox factions - this is what Walla learned on Wednesday! NEWS. Netanyahu examined two major options through internal polls that the Likud, the first, invited to unite all factions in the right-wing bloc under one note as a technical block, and the second, a broad unification that does not include Torah Judaism and Shas.

According to the source in the details, we will examine whether the second option in the polls yields better results than the other results, if each party were to compete alone. However, Netanyahu has yet to decide whether he intends to execute the move. Netanyahu explored this possibility in the shadow of concern that the religious parties, including the Jewish Home, the National Union and the New Right, would not pass the blockade percentage in the upcoming elections if they did not join one large list. The Likud commented: "Advertising is not correct."

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He has not yet decided whether he intends to implement the move. Netanyahu (Photo: Reuters)

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This is not the first time the "Republican Party" idea has surfaced on the prime minister's desk. In 2015, Netanyahu considered establishing a right-center bloc from the National Camp and All Party parties that would run on one list in the elections that year. He then told his associates that the importance during this time was that "only then will it be possible to control. As in America: two parties, two blocs, right and left." Finally, the move did not come to fruition.

Although the decision has not yet been made, Netanyahu has held talks with Likud members about the initiative, and this may accelerate in the coming days, also due to tough disagreements within the religious parties to the right of Likud, the disconnect between Jewish Home Minister Rafi Peretz and National Union President Bezalel Smutrich And the fear that they will not pass the blocking percentage.

Although the initiative has been examined before, it is first published in the background of the proposal of Labor chairman Amir Peretz, according to which all the center-left parties will run in the upcoming elections under one list. Today, at a meeting of blue-white factions, party chairman Benny Gantz rejected his proposal. Peretz said he was not planning to join any party in the upcoming elections.

From the Labor Party delivered in response to advertising in Walla! NEWS: "Blue and White should come together and secure the victory of the change and hope bloc against the extreme right headed by Netanyahu."