Ya'alon warns voters that Lieberman could recommend Livni for PM
Published by Avi Green on Saturday, February 07, 2009 at 2:23 PM.
Moshe Ya'alon of the Likud has warned voters of what Avigdor Lieberman might do after the election:
Three days before the national elections, Likud candidate for Knesset and former IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon warned voters that after the elections, Israel Beiteinu Avigdor Lieberman could recommend to the president that Tzipi Livni build the coalition, Army Radio reported.Voters are going to have to make some hard decisions now. Do they want to throw away their vote by casting the ballot for a tiny party that might not even get much of a result, if at all, or, do they want the Likud to be able to form a government? And, most importantly, do they want the threat imposed by Iran to be dealt with effectively, as well as foreign affairs?
Ya'alon therefore urged supporters of Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu to vote for Likud.
"If you want Netanyahu as prime minister, you must vote for Likud, and not for other right-wing parties," he reportedly said at a meeting in Shoham Saturday.
Lieberman continued to rise in nearly every poll published on Friday, hitting a peak of 21 seats in a poll taken by the Geocartographic Institute for the Globes newspaper.
Netanyahu expressed concern on Thursday that if too many right-wing voters cast ballots for the Likud's satellite parties, his party could end up losing the election despite leading the entire campaign.
"Most of the people in the national camp want to see me as prime minister and want the Likud's policies," Netanyahu told a packed audience of some 250 English-speaking Likud supporters at Jerusalem's Crown Plaza Hotel.
