Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be unable to retain power after the country’s army concludes its operation against Hamas in Gaza, media outlet Ynet has claimed, citing anonymous sources within his Likud party.
Amid increasing calls for early elections, the Israeli leader emphasized on Saturday that this is now the case ‘Not the time for politics’ suggesting that the next vote will take place “in a few years.”
Multiple polls have shown that Netanyahu’s approval ratings and those of his Likud party have fallen since Hamas militants carried out their deadly surprise attack on Israeli territory on October 7, 2023. In December, the Israel Democracy Institute, citing survey results: claimed that more than two-thirds of Israelis want general elections to be held once hostilities in Gaza are over.
A survey conducted earlier this month found that opposition parties would secure as many as 75 of the 120 seats in Israel’s parliament if elections were held now.
In its report on Saturday, Ynet quoted an unnamed senior Likud member who predicted as much “Whoever was prime minister on October 7 will leave his position at the end of the war.”
Another aide to Netanyahu’s party reportedly argued that it doesn’t matter “No matter how much Netanyahu delays the end and how much he doesn’t want to, at the end of this war we will have elections.” According to media reports, the anonymous Likud executive added that the prime minister would be forced to call early elections, either by members of his own political power or by other parties that are part of the ruling coalition, with everyone understanding. . “This is what’s going to happen.”
At a press conference on Saturday, Netanyahu rejected calls for early elections and insisted that a vote for the Knesset would take place as planned, i.e. in October 2026.
‘I propose that we do not concern ourselves with that during the war’ the Prime Minister said, arguing that the “The last thing we need right now is an election.” Netanyahu warned that internal political divisions in Israel would play into the hands of Hamas.
The opposition party Yesh Atid released a statement describing the prime minister’s comments “Yet another performance by an unfit Prime Minister who, by all accounts, has long lost the public’s trust and continues to flee from responsibility for the greatest failure for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
“Israel needs change. Elections are the order of the day the party argued.
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