Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu was a no-show at a meeting Thursday to reaffirm support for him as its leader and sole candidate for prime minister.
The Likud Central Committee gathering, led by the party’s top decision-making body and was attended by only a fraction of its approximately 3,800 members, was scheduled after Netanyahu backed off his proposal last week to call a snap leadership primary, which political rival Gideon Sa’ar vowed to contend.
The committee instead approved a measure declaring Netanyahu Likud’s candidate for prime minister in the current Knesset and that the party will only sit in a government which he heads, whether for the entire term or under a rotation agreement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and then interior minister Gideon Sa’ar (L) seen at the Knesset on July 9, 2013. (Flash 90)
“The proposal was approved in an open vote with a decisive majority of votes,” Likud says.
The party did not give a figure on the results, but according to Army Radio, less than 10 percent of the Central Committee’s members took part in the vote.
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