The Likud was disappointed by the news that there was a dramatic drop in the rate of voting for the party in its permanent strongholds. • A party member of the party for "Israel Today": "There was complacency"
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Likud members discuss what is happening after the election, and one thing is already clear - the results obtained are definitely disappointing.
PM Netanyahu, Wednesday: "We achieved a huge gap from the second largest party" // Photo: Yoni Rickner
The party looks at the voting data and sees that in the Likud strongholds there is a decrease in the voting rate.
Looking at the results of the vote for the 23rd Knesset and the 24th Knesset, the Likud party is losing about 200,000 votes.
In the 23rd Knesset, the Likud party won 1,352,449 votes, in the 24th Knesset it received 1,065,270 votes (as of 19:00 last night).
Apart from the data, Likud fielders say they felt the trend on Election Day: "The Likudniks did not come to the polls, period," says one of the activists in the south of the country.
"I do not have an exact explanation for why this happened, but I tell you from experience in previous times that this time, especially in places where we are strong, people did not come. Maybe it's the fatigue of fourth elections, maybe they did not feel they were going to lose.
One of the party's field men also sounded disappointed.
"I do not want to say that the Likudniks are forced to do good, but something happened here. We called people, we came and knocked on their door. There was a feeling of complacency."
The Likud exchange of accusations continued today (Thursday) following the collapse of the computer system on Election Day, which was first published in "Israel Today".
"This is simply negligence," one of the party's MKs told Israel Today. "We only needed two seats here and there is a situation where these are exactly the two seats we lost with the collapse of the computer system."