The Prime Minister referred to the possibility of defectors from competing parties, and said: "If there is a rotation with Lapid, they will pass" • On the Prime Minister: "There will be no 61st finger"
Prime Minister Netanyahu
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Prime Minister Netanyahu interviewed Niv Raskin this morning (Wednesday) on the morning program of News 12, and indirectly referred to a recording that was revealed yesterday in "Israel Today", in which his close adviser was heard talking about internal polls predicting that the right-wing bloc would be larger than 61 seats, saying: Before the guys from Gideon and Gantz, who will come to us after the election. "
This morning, Netanyahu said: "There are rumors from the guys at Bennett and also at Saar, who say that if they try to make a rotation with Lapid, they will not be able to come to terms with it. They are sitting inside, so they know the plan."
On the possibility of a televised confrontation with Yair Lapid, he said: "If you invite me and him to the confrontation, I tell you that I will consider it seriously, even though there is a queue of interviewers."
"Bennett is trying to hide the fact that he has no way of forming a government without a torch and without rotation. I told him - commit without a torch and without rotation, but he is not willing to commit."
Netanyahu was asked about possible support from Mansour Abbas to form a government and replied, "No, I do not need the PM.
"RAAM will not be the 61st finger and I will not lean on it. Not only do I not need RAAM, I can say the opposite, RAAM and Mansour Abbas, Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh want to overthrow us."
As mentioned, yesterday Prime Minister Netanyahu was heard talking to his closest advisers at a conference in Givat Shmuel, with the parties discussing a poll in which the right-wing bloc reaches 62 seats.
Netanyahu's adviser talks about defectors - the prime minister silences him
Netanyahu added in the conversation that in internal Likud polls, the bloc will be larger.
The prime minister's close adviser, Yonatan Orich, was heard saying that "this is before the guys from Gideon and Gantz, who will come to us after the election."
In response, Netanyahu immediately withdrew him.
"Not here, we will not talk about it now," he said.
