Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Gideon Saar have urged supporters to vote in the Likud party's leadership election, with the embattled Israeli prime minister fighting for his political future
Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Gideon Saar urged supporters to vote in the Likud party's leadership election on Thursday, with the embattled Israeli Prime Minister fighting for his political future.
Mr Saar called it a"fateful day" for the party and the country, speaking as he went to vote near Tel Aviv. At a polling station in Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighbourhood, Rami David said he had voted for Mr Saar because"he would give Likud a new image". Stephan Miller, a pollster who has worked on multiple Israeli campaigns, said whatever the result"Netanyahu can only lose" because"it will be the first time in 10 years that a group of voters on the right explicitly express their desire to get rid of Netanyahu".General elections in April and September saw Mr Netanyahu deadlocked with centrist challenger Benny Gantz, neither of them able to command a majority in Israel's parliament.
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