Liberman tight-lipped on PM candidate of his choice

Former defense minister Avigdor Liberman says he won’t endorse either Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu or Blue and White leader Benny Gantz for prime minister until the final tally from the national election is in.

“The gaps [between the exit polls] is too great and the picture is too fuzzy,” Liberman says.

The leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party, which is expected to get four or five Knesset seats, says once all the votes are counted, he will determine which party best serves his agenda and join with it to form a coalition.

Liberman says he is “glad the campaign is over.”

The former defense minister rails against the “psychological warfare” of fake surveys and polls, and says he will attempt to change campaigning laws in the next Knesset “so that they fit this century and not the 1950s.”

— Judah Ari Gross