Poll: 42% of Likud voters weighing or have decided to back different party in fall

Times of Israel ^ | Toi Staff

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Forty-two percent of Israelis who voted for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in the previous election are either considering or have decided to back a different party in the fall Knesset elections, according to a Channel 12 news poll broadcast Friday.

The other 58% of Israelis who voted for Likud in the previous election said they will do the same at the ballot box, the survey said.

The poll showed 10% of those who backed Likud in 2022 will support the Together slate former prime minister Naftali Bennett formed with Opposition Leader Yair Lapid; 6% will vote for former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot’s centrist Yashar party; 4% will back Avigdor Liberman’s secular right-wing Yisrael Beytenu party; 3% will cast a ballot for far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party; 2% will vote for Yoaz Hendel’s right-wing Reservists party; 1% will support Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party; and 1% will cast a vote for Bezalel Smotrich’s far-right Religious Zionism party.

Eight percent of former Likud voters said they were unsure who they will vote for and 6% plan to sit out the election.

Among Likud voters who are either considering or have decided not to vote for Netanyahu’s party once again, 37% said it’s because of the failure to prevent Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack; 23% said it’s because of the legislation that the government is trying to pass granting blanket exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students; 14% said because of Netanyahu’s personal conduct; 13% said it’s because of divisions in Israeli society; and 13% said they’re unsure.

Asked whether Netanyahu should run in the next election, 64% of those who voted Likud in the last elections said yes, while 30% said he should retire.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; bibibashing; israel; likud; multiplenicks; netanyahu; politics

[mac_truck]

Bye bye Bibi

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I have been a big Bibi Netanyahu fan since the 1980s. I though he had the right combination of free market policies and aggressive foreign policy for Israel. I also had a personal affinity for him since he was from Philadelphia. And, for the most part, he has been right over the years. But just like my political hero, Margaret Thatcher, every politician has a shelf life and Bibi has hit his. You can’t just go on and on and on. His personal baggage is dragging the party down and he needs to turn the party over to fresh leadership, although that may be hard for him to do because he has corruption prosecutions waiting in the wings once he is out of office.

[dfwgator]

“Every political career ends in failure.”

[adorno]

Bye bye Bibi

The article sounds very iffy on what voters will do. No certainty about which way they will vote.

It does sound like Bibi will be back, though That 58% is an indicator that Israelis fear changing from what they know.

[dfwgator]

That’s 58% of Likud voters.

[mac_truck]

Did you watch the interview 60 Minutes did with Netanyahu?

[Zionist Conspirator]

And all good right wing Catholics are elated that Bibi, whom everyone knows runs every abortion clinic and gay bar in the world, will be replaced by their good friends the Israeli Left, whose support of "pride" parades, abortion, and terrorists fits perfectly the Catechism of the Council of Trent. The G-dless Israeli Left will then immediately cease the diabolic Talmudic Conspiracy to fluoridate the goyim's drinking water.

Rad Trads everywhere are expressing the hope that Bibi will be replaced by a transgender wiccan b*ddhist who supports the American Left--the good Left, they remind us, not the bad Left which everyone knows is run by the Israeli Right.[/sarc]