Likud Knesset members celebrate with Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife after the elections.. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
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Likud Knesset members are being asked to sign a petition on Sunday reiterating that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and only Netanyahu, is the party’s candidate to form the next government.
The petition came after Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman said on Channel 12’s Meet the Press program on Saturday evening that he would like to see a prime minister from Likud who is not Netanyahu and suggested Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein.
“We the undersigned candidates on the Likud list for the 22nd Knesset underscore that we will not receive any dictation from any other party,” the petition says.
“Without regard to the results of the election, Netanyahu is the Likud’s only candidate for prime minister, and there will be no other candidate.
The petition drive was initiated by MK David Bitan and immediately endorsed by Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, among other Netanyahu loyalists. The party’s 40 top candidates will be asked to sign the petition.
Edelstein, Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Communications Minister David Amsalem all released statements on Saturday night condemning Liberman for interfering in their party.
Blue and White number two Yair Lapid tweeted an endorsement of Liberman’s comments on Sunday.
“Bibi is right,” Lapid wrote. “Behind his back, everyone in Likud is already searching for his successor and talking about nothing but that. Right now they are whispering, but not for much longer.”
This petition was revealed first by the Ynet website.
Netanyahu’s spokesman Yonatan Urich mocked Lapid’s reaction to the petition by saying that Blue and White is considering stopping its four leaders attacking each other for a day.
The Democratic Union’s number two candidate, former MK Stav Shaffir, wrote on Twitter that the petition showed that the Likud is “committing suicide.”
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