The far-right Otzma Yehudit party has submitted an urgent petition against the Likud party to the Central Elections Committee, accusing the prime minister’s party of sending millions of anonymous text messages to voters claiming his party had quit the race.
The messages are said to urge voters to vote for Likud instead.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Anybody that is voting for Otzmah realizes that their vote is being wasted but that are voting for them anyway in order to make a statement— so nothing would change if they “dropped out” — Otzmah is just setting the stage for a run in a possible election number 4. Now they can claim that if not for the false messages saying that they dropped out, they would have crossed the threshold and gotten 4 seats.
They should quit the race because they’ll ultimately be responsible for any and all ramifications of their stupidity and Akshanus
This guy won’t meet the minimum threshold but he will probably siphon enough votes to make a right wing government.
I meant to say “to stop a right wing government”.