Zionist Union chairman says party’s local election wins show Netanyahu losing support

Zionist Union chairman Avi Gabbay says that his party’s strong showing in several cities in last week’s municipal elections shows that “Likud rule is in danger.”

Mocking Netanyahu’s infamous pre-2015 election claim that Arab voters were making their way “in droves” to the polls, Gabbay says: “Likud voters came in droves to the polls last week… but did not vote Likud. They came in droves and voted for change.”

“Likud voters are beginning to understand that the slogan ‘there is no alternative’ is just campaign spin and not the reality,” he says, touting wins by Zionist Union and Labor party mayoral candidates in Haifa and Nahariya as well as the crushing loss suffered by senior Likud minister Ze’ev Elkin in the Jerusalem race.

“This is what will happen in the national elections. We will win.”

— Raoul Wootliff