It seems everyone has caught the same bug. In the past hour, the left-wing Labor party, the Haredi United Torah Judaism party and the far-right Union of Right-Wing Party have all repeated their claims that they’re headed for “collapse” at the polls.
“It’s clear that voter turnout among the Haredi community is low,” says UTJ lawmaker Moshe Gafni. “That’s disastrous when it comes to elections. Half the public hasn’t gone to vote, and it’s already getting late. That’s a terrible situation for us.”
Labor leader Avi Gabbay, meanwhile, attacks Blue and White, saying, “Don’t let them decimate the Labor party” by pulling votes away, “because then we’ll be left with right-wing parties and no Labor.”
And Rafi Peretz, head of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, says “internal polls we have show we’re in a bad situation. Religious Zionist could be erased from the political map.”
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