West Bank & Jerusalem
Netanyahu pushes right-wing parties toward unified slate before election
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving to consolidate Israel's fractious right-wing political parties ahead of a Tuesday deadline, seeking to prevent an election defeat forecast by opinion polls, Al-Monitor reported. The consolidation effort aims to unite ideologically disparate factions under a single electoral slate to strengthen their collective showing.
Recent polling has indicated that Netanyahu's political bloc faces significant losses in the upcoming vote, prompting the intensive last-minute coalition-building campaign. The unified slate strategy reflects an attempt to maximize right-wing representation and counter projected gains by opposition parties ahead of voting day.
