Israel: Likud Members Vote in Key Primary Race as Netanyahu Secures Expanded Control over Party Slate
- On Monday, roughly 140,000 registered members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party voted at centers across Israel to select candidates for the upcoming national election.
- Modifications pushed by Netanyahu to restrict open slots have turned this year's contest into an extraordinarily competitive struggle for viable Knesset positions after the Likud Central Committee granted him authority to determine eight reserved spots last month.
- Competition intensified after the Tel Aviv District Court recently upheld a ruling blocking lawmakers from running for district-reserved spots, leaving the party's roughly 40 incumbents at risk as polls project only about 22 Knesset wins.
- MK Tally Gotliv dismissed reports of being sidelined as "delusional fake news," stating she expects voters to place her high on the slate to become Israel's justice minister.
- These primaries serve as a gauge for whether Likud will elevate moderates or slide further right, with results crucial ahead of the general election set for October 27.
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Likud primary sheds light on Netanyahu's strategy to stay in power
Likud party members headed to polls to select candidates for the October 27 elections on Monday, in a vote marked by the right-wing party's increasing radicalization and the prime minister's tightening grip.
The ruling Likud party, which has governed Israel for barely a year since 2009, held primary elections on Monday. 140,000 members will vote for the party's list for the election in October. But party leader Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed the right to nominate several of his own candidates in advance.
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eldiariodechihuahua.mxMembers of the Likud party voted today to elect candidates for the October 27 legislative elections, in a re-entry contest.
The roughly 140,000 members of the Likud party, led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are voting this Monday, August 17, in their party's primaries. The goal: to determine the list of candidates who will represent the party in the general elections at the end of October.
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