A member of the Labor party said on Tuesday that the political group will support Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid for the prime minister after the upcoming March 23 elections.
“We will praise Yair Lapid… we believe he can lead a coalition,” said Nachman Shai, a lawyer who was Labour’s eight. [Lapid] is the end of the block. “
Lapid, the leader of the centrist bloc and current opposition leader, has voted higher than most other opposition candidates across the political spectrum and is expected to win between 18 and 20 seats in the 24th Knesset.
Shai’s news comes a day after Meretz’s left-wing party similarly announced Lapid’s support for the prime minister.
“I see him as the leader of the largest party in our bloc with the best chance of forming a government,” Chairman Meretz Nitzan Horowitz told Ynet on Monday. [at the helm].
The Meretz party has been struggling to make progress with voters in this latest election round and has been hovering around the 3.25% election threshold in major polls before the vote there.
“A strategic vote is to vote for Meretz to prevent Netanyahu from forming a narrow right-wing government,” Horowitz said.
Parties that meet the election standard automatically win four seats in the Knesset. The March 23 election marks Israel’s fourth election in just over two years.