Despite the big crisis in the party, Blue and White chairman Bnei Gantz will announce tonight (Tuesday) a blue-and-white race headed by him in the upcoming elections.
Ganz attacked Netanyahu: “After the election, he will no longer be prime minister”
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn has announced that he will leave Blue and White and hide in the new party founded by Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, who will announce this to the media this evening in parallel with Gantz’s statement, which will be given at 8:00 PM in Kfar HaMaccabiah. “We will bring news to hundreds of thousands of Israelis who feel they have no political home – and we will do so by deeds and not by words,” Nissenkorn said. Nissenkorn is expected to side with Huldai tonight during the announcement of the formation of the new party.
The new party hopes that many of the votes of the center camp parked at Gideon Saar, and also on the right, will pass to them, and will also pass on to them additional votes from a white brush and from work.
Coalition chairman MK Miki Zohar (Likud) tweeted: “Nissenkorn and Huldai are the perfect combination for the Israeli left. They give right-wing voters all the reasons why everyone must vote for the Likud!”
As you may recall, since the decision to dissolve the Knesset, there has been a blue-and-white crisis that has manifested itself in the departure of many of the party’s Knesset members. Two of the “rebels” who voted in favor of the dispersal, Assaf Zamir and Miki Haimovich, have already met with Ganz who informed them that they will not be included in the list in the upcoming elections. Ganat is soon expected to announce this to the third “rebel”, MK Ram Shefa.
In addition, MK Michal Kotler-Wensch announced this morning that she will run in the election but not in a blue-and-white setting.
Gantz also said goodbye to Derech Eretz Knesset members Yoaz Handel and Zvi Hauser, who in the last Knesset were part of a blue-and-white bloc, but in the run-up to the next election joined the “New Hope” party led by Gideon Saar.