Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been looking into running a joint Likud ticket with Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party in the general elections, Haaretz has learned. Netanyahu apparently fears the three main center-left parties - Labor, Kadima and Yesh Atid - will field a joint list in the elections, scheduled for September 4, that would be the largest bloc, enabling them to form a government....
... Kadima had 28 seats and Labor initially had 13 - a total of 41 seats - before Ehud Barak split from Labor with four other MKs to form the Atzmaut faction, leaving Labor with eight seats.
According to the law, the president must grant the leader with the highest chance of forming a government the mandate to do so. The prime minister's associates fear that even if Likud, right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties together get more Knesset seats that the center-left bloc, the president's mandate will go to the largest single faction.
All the polls released this week predict the Likud will win some 30 Knesset seats and Yisrael Beiteinu about 15. Theoretically, a joint Likud-Beiteinu list would be larger than the center-left bloc and receive the president's mandate. But the chances of Kadima, Labor and Yesh Atid forming a joint list are slim, mainly due to personal rivalries and differences, political sources said.STAY TUNED...
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