The Minister of the Interior and Chairman of the Shas movement, Aryeh Deri, today (Sunday) opened the election headquarters with hundreds of activists from around the country via the “Zoom” app, and announced that he and his party will recommend Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.
“Yesterday Shas launched its campaign – we have no one to lean on. A message that we believe in wholeheartedly, “Deri said in his opening remarks, adding:” People asked how Netanyahu’s good friends are slandering, defaming, and forming parties. Another split and another split. Bibi does not need a strong lion. Bibi owes a strong lion. Without a strong Shas, there is no strong Bibi. Shas has not zigzagged, even now it announces: We will support Netanyahu. “
The minister then promised to return Tikva Hadasha chairman Gideon Saar and Yemina chairman Naftali Bennett back to the right-wing camp. “I pledge, without a vow, to bring my friend Gideon Saar and my friend Naftali Bennett, to bring them back into the right-wing camp. There will be a large right-wing government led by Netanyahu and Shas will be strong,” Deri said.
Tikva Hadasha responded: “We inform Aryeh Deri – it will not happen. Deri also understands that Netanyahu has lost the trust of the majority of the public. Netanyahu 61 does not have a government and Netanyahu has no government. All he knows to offer the State of Israel is more and more elections and political instability “And economically. What Netanyahu will not succeed in, we will succeed: after the election, we will form a stable government headed by Gideon Saar.”
The chairman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, MK Avigdor Lieberman, commented on the opening of Deri’s campaign and wrote on his Twitter account: “The next government must be Zionist and liberal. Replacing only Bibi is not enough, one should avoid a situation where Bennett and Saar are blackmailed by Deri and Litzman and really replace the government and priorities. Yisrael Beiteinu will ensure that Shas and Torah Judaism activists move to the opposition benches. “
The next government must be Zionist and liberal. Replacing only Bibi is not enough, one should avoid a situation where Bennett and Saar are blackmailed by Deri and Litzman and really replace the government and priorities.
Yisrael Beiteinu will ensure that Shas and Torah Judaism activists move to the opposition benches. pic.twitter.com/BCqzegW87W
– Avigdor Lieberman (@AvigdorLiberman) January 17, 2021