Shas chairman Aryeh Deri spoke this morning (Tuesday) with Ben Caspit Winon Magal on their program on 103FM and estimated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be the one to form the next government. “My assessment is quite clear and strengthened day by day – that the next prime minister will be Netanyahu with a government of at least 61. Including Naftali Bennett. I guess we’ll end up with 63-62“However, he stressed that Netanyahu made a mistake when he decided to attack Saar and Elkin.
“This election,” Deri said, “you must have seen the news that the Election Commission is preparing with the ballots with a double-envelope vote because of the Corona, there will be about 15 seats that will have to be counted after the first count so it’s hard to predict where the seats will fall. It is getting stronger day by day, that it will end in the end with the ultra-Orthodox religious right-wing bloc over 60 seats and I hope we will end this story. “
On the new Tikva chairman he said: “Gideon Saar does not believe in himself in what he says, we are all in the campaign. Unlike Shas, whose campaign is not prime minister, you will not personally choose Deri, but you will choose the way, you will choose Kadosh Baruch He, in Torah and Judaism, Gideon, Naftali, Yair, in their main campaign is one – we can replace Bibi Netanyahu and everyone tries to explain why He is the most suitable and able to replace Netanyahu and if he does not have anything to sell, I’m sorry, I say. “
“At first the public believed that Bennett could replace Netanyahu gave him 20 or so seats, then Saar and now Lapid. So Saar will say as much as he needs and Bennett will hear statements, if 5 minutes a day there is a situation or feeling that Saar or Bennett or Lapid can not form a government and replace Bibi you will see a huge drop in seats so I am not moved by such statements. That I will tell how many attempts in the last few months have been made to set up and meet and maintain one channel or another? So with all due respect. “
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He added: “My mouth and my heart are equal in the matter, from the beginning I said we are with Netanyahu. I have nothing personal, God forbid and no one, with everyone I worked in friendship and appreciation, I said I would be happy to form a broad government under Netanyahu, “I think Netanyahu made mistakes in harming Gideon Saar, maybe even Elkin.”
Deri referred to the possibility that Saar would offer him to join the coalition led by him and replied: “This is a double hypothetical question. For me it is a hypothetical question that we will not get 61, I see it clearly. Why should I think of theoretical things. On Gideon Saar, what does Lapid disappear? “I estimated 20 plus he will be big this time Lapid, so he will give up on the storm? It’s all virtual, on election night you will see how all the air will explode and count seats and Lapid was already in the movie with Ganz, gave up once and will not give up this time.”
“All of these guys’ campaigns are to move Netanyahu, when Netanyahu and Saar and Bennett Baruch Hashem do not deny that they are right-wing and belong to the national camp. When the majority of the national camp, 30 and a few seats of Netanyahu, the ultra-Orthodox, Smutrich all say they want Netanyahu, more than 50 seats coming for Gideon or Naftali that I do not know with how many they will end and I do not rule out the possibility that Shas will end with more seats than them, and say I want to be prime minister against all the national, religious public, who wants a national government? This does not seem reasonable to me. It’s good for an election campaign, for convincing voters from the center and the left, it’s the whole campaign. Do you want me to play this game too? I’m not ready”.
When asked about the possibility of joining a coalition led by Netanyahu, which also includes the RAAM party led by MK Mansour Abbas, laughed Deri, and then replied: “This is a possibility that can be, I believe we will reach 62-61 without it but it is always good to have more people to support you In voting and integrating the Arab sector. All my life I believed that the greatest interest of the State of Israel is that they can integrate the Arab sector. You compare Balad and Hadash and all their statements to Muslims who believe in the Creator of the world but want to integrate? But we will use 62-61 without them. “.
Deri explained why he did not attend the News 12 influencers’ conference yesterday and attacked: “I do not suffer from the phenomenon of the battered woman, I am beaten and I do not go to the place where I am beaten. The media is running a very strong campaign, they understood that the only stop to replacing Netanyahu is the ultra-Orthodox, so they are beating the ultra-Orthodox to beat Netanyahu. “
“If I were to give a headline that I was considering supporting a torch or a storm you would see how the ultra-Orthodox become flesh and blood, the best people. I do not go to the media much, I am tired. But, specifically true I was supposed to be there. To be a channel of the general public that unilaterally took sides against the ultra-Orthodox during all the months. ”
Deri referred to the claim that the Exceptions Committee was canceled following the News 12 investigation and claimed: “The Exceptions Committee was canceled, if you know the discussions that took place with the Spokesman for many weeks about what to do with the election and how to maintain the right to vote, no connection to the article. “Alas for the article on which the Exceptions Committee was canceled, a real article should be based on facts and facts, and when all the numbers show that the majority of the public who came here are not ultra-Orthodox, it does not matter to them these facts.”