Less than a week before the elections to the 24th Knesset, Saar is trying to stop the drop in the polls and Bennett strives to maintain stability.
Gideon Saar, Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett and Benjamin Netanyahu
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Gideon Markovich, Oren Ben Hakon, Liron Moldovan and Herzi Shapira
The last
news
of the election has a fateful date: the
publication of the last poll on Friday.
The recent heated battles between the candidates are meant to improve attitudes towards this poll, which may have a dramatic impact on the results of the truth.
When Gideon Saar retired from the Likud and established a new hope, he did not estimate that this would reach the finish line.
The trend of abandonment is evident in every poll, and the feelings at the election headquarters are bleak.
In three surveys it has already reached single digits, and even in those that have not - the descending graph characterizes them all.
The overarching goal of Saar for the next two days is to curb the parachute.
Stay with your head above water.
Just not to reach a definite single-digit in the latest survey of all.
Saar's plight has resulted in one of the hallucinatory campaigns that has been going on here in recent years: blaming another candidate for his activists resorting to violence and inflating incidents that did not happen.
The same distress is also highlighted among the party activists who passed with Saar from the Likud.
This child was not prayed for.
Gaining power against Netanyahu, as Moshe Kahlon did, for example, is one thing.
But from here to joining Gush Yair Lapid, Merav Michaeli and Nitzan Horowitz - that is another matter.
PM: "Saar and Bennett will go with Lapid" // Photo: Netanyahu's Facebook page
Saar, of course, like Lieberman before him, is allowed to step aside and stand as a candidate for the people's election.
It is not certain that the entire list he brought with him, most of them refugees from other parties, will go with him in the event of an election failure.
However, wanting to belong to the right wing of the barricade and to think that this can be done by boycotting Netanyahu's right-wing coalition is already a task that will probably prove impossible.
The same is true of Naftali Bennett.
The chairman of the right took a vague line about his intentions. He kept the cards close to his chest. He too, like Saar, should show in the latest poll that he maintains stability. .
Bennett may miss an opportunity to reach the prime minister for a while, because without rotation there would be no possibility in any case, but the long-term damage to the introduction of significant left-wing elements when there is another alternative, will be retaliated against later.
Because a political leader in the right-wing camp cannot torpedo a right-wing government and think he will continue to be considered part of the camp.
After all, those who applaud him to the extent that he does so will be mainly leftists.
Such a government, which may be legally and statutory, may have no public revival.
The legitimacy will be from her onwards.
Fateful decisions will not be able to be made in it, and its partners will sentence the country to a life of paralysis, which will further lead to intense longing for the current private government.
Anyone who sees himself as part of the national camp must commit to forming a right-wing government.
In the situation that has arisen, by the way, the same applies to Netanyahu.
Although he has done so in the past, to the extent that this time, to the extent that he is allowed to form a right-wing government of 61, he would prefer to leave a right-wing party out and bring in left-wing candidates under it, would not be different in this respect from Saar or Bennett.
The issues at stake in this election for the right-wing camp are too important to deal with: the justice system, repelling pressure on settlement in the Biden era, changing the rules for opening fire on crime in the south, and more.
The Likud is faltering in the polls, but unlike Saar and Bennett, it is actually good for Netanyahu.
The prime minister needs to maintain tension for Election Day. To get out of the indifference. To stimulate the complacent to come to the polls. Too big an increase in the latest poll may disrupt plans. On election day itself.
Lapid has changed direction in recent days, he also did so ahead of the latest poll, in which he will look less at his condition and much more at Ganz's condition.
Lapid strives to bring Gantz for the first time under the blocking percentage and bring about his retirement.
If he passes this poll as well, not only will the prospect of Gantz retiring exist, but also convincing his supporters to abandon at the last minute and move to support another left-wing party will become an impossible task.