Trailing in the polls before Tuesday’s elections, Israel’s prime minister has warned that the right-wing government he leads could be voted out of office.
Benjamin Netanyahu called on supporters to help him secure a fourth term in office, at a rally in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
“Our rivals are investing a huge effort to harm me and the Likud, to open a gap between my party, the Likud, and (our rivals), and if we don’t close this gap, there is a real danger that a left-wing government will rise to power,” Netanyahu said.
He’s counting on having a better chance of forming a coalition than his centre-left rivals.
Several final opinion polls suggested his Likud party would win fewer seats than the Zionist Union, whose co-leader Isaac Herzog took his campaign to Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Sunday.
Soft-spoken and witty, he has focused on the economy and is said to have benefitted from voters’ weariness with Netanyahu’s obsession with security.
