A senior Kulanu official says “from both sides, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Zionist Union chairman Isaac Herzog, told [party leader Moshe] Kahlon ‘Come, sign with us and you’ll be finance minister’. But Kahlon does not want to come as ‘hired help’ – he wants to win this role by deserving it,” according to NRG.
The Kulanu leader “wants to reach the Finance Ministry with 15 Knesset seats – not six,” the unnamed official says. “We are the poorest party, with the smallest budget, but we have good momentum. A double-digit number of seats will be a huge achievement.”
Moshe Kahlon, leader of Kulanu Party, and ex-IDF General Yoav Galant at the party headquarters in Lod on March 16, 2015 (photo credit: Flash90)
The party’s No. 2, Yoav Galant, voted in Amikam, where he lives, earlier. “This is the time for change. No one has left the country because of Iran – people leave the country because they are despaired by the social and economic situation. The time has come to put this at the top of the agenda,” Galant says.
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