In recent days, we are starting to feel the approach of the elections, campaigns are raging in the streets and media, scandals are being unearthed and thrown around every week, resignations, alliances, marketing stunts—everything is allowed in these 2019 elections.
At Israland, we take the negotiations that take place every day before our eyes very seriously and have decided to give you our opinion backed by concrete elements. We have, of course, had a bias for many years, and we still wish to keep an open eye on everyone’s proposals; we do not aim to influence, just to convey a point of view.
The goal of the parties: To be able to dethrone BIBI, and for that, anything goes!
Only 59 days left before the early elections that will take place next April. We are closely following the alliances that are being formed just after the “primaries.”
We notice that some elected officials will no longer have their place within their own parties. Left-wing officials who have fought alongside MERETZ, like “Hirshman,” find themselves in the right-wing Likud through the breach of the new party Likoudnikim ahadashim.
The former military high command, which was presenting itself from the right, is currently making a 90-degree turn and seeking an alliance with Yair Lapid, the direct opponent of Binyamin Netanyahu, with less than 24 hours before the final decision of both parties to accept the merger.
Some have outright preferred the infiltration of Likud by “Likour Ahadash” rather than advancing their own causes, thus neglecting their own opinions at the expense of parties developed over many years without success:
