The former Prime Minister is counting on his ally, the Jewish supremacist Itamar Ben Gvir, to convince the abstainers and regain his lost majority in the legislative elections of November 1.
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Two hours late, twenty-five minutes on stage, and Benyamin Netanyahu is already going elsewhere. The “King Bibi” campaign for the Israeli legislative elections of 1 er November is a quick matter. Cline your eyes and you’ve missed it. Monday, October 24, until late at night, the former Israeli Prime Minister travels the north of the country, from the Lebanese border to Lake Tiberias. In a park perched on the heights of the large half-touristic, half-religorous city, which borders these waters, they were a few hundred to wait for it.
The stage was announced in the early afternoon. Mr. Netanyahu, 73, did not even shake hands with local officials of his party, Likoud, the first political party of Israel, relegated to opposition in June 2021, for the first time in twelve years. He no longer meets. He is content to appear in front of his family, as in one of the microvideos he shares on the Tiktok network.
He stands on a bus closed on one of the sides by a transparent armored window. At his side, in this jar, under a deluge of white light: his wife, Sarah, and three deputies from Likoud. The most powerful speaker in Israel ended up reducing his message to a one -minute clip, which he repeats in a loop. Paternal, he tances his own: “You are the majority, but you do not vote!” Or not enough. Prime Minister, Yaïr Lapid, “hates Israel”. His government, which has barely fallen after a year, is a failure. Galloping inflation. He sounds a big bell alarm clock: “I’m here to wake you up.” In this fifth election since 2019, Mr. Netanyahu no longer has to argue. He only seeks to mobilize the abstainers, to win one or two seats in the Parliament, who would give him his majority evaporated (61 on 120 deputies).
an ideological current hitherto pestified
In the audience, Tiki Yeruham, 67, tried until the end of baking his friends on the phone. Professor of Arabic, divorced, she forgot her reservations vis-à-vis the old leader. “Because people hate him for no reason. They say no to” bibi “, no to” bibi “, but why?” His trial for corruption, which resumes this Tuesday 25, in Jerusalem, does not interest him: “they want to hang it before the verdict. “M me yeruham does not know anyone who has not been knowing, for several years, for whom he will vote. Only novelty: many of his friends are stored behind the Jewish supremacist Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Religious Zionism movement and ally of Likoud.
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