Smotrich Offers Defense Ministry Post to Winter to Quit Election
Summarized from The Jerusalem Post by baba
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich offered People of Israel party leader Ofer Winter a Defense Ministry appointment and other directorates in exchange for Winter withdrawing from the October 27 election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also urged Winter to quit the race, warning that a split right-wing vote could lead to a left-wing government. Winter's party, polling below the threshold, has endorsed Netanyahu, though Winter himself has expressed some recent doubts about the endorsement.
The story in 6 lines · by baba
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich offered Ofer Winter a Defense Ministry post to withdraw from the election.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also urged Ofer Winter to quit the race to "save the Right."
- Smotrich's party offered Winter authority over a Gaza emigration directorate and an ultra-Orthodox integration directorate.
- Winter's People of Israel party has been polling below the electoral threshold.
- The People of Israel party confirmed its endorsement of Netanyahu for prime minister.
- Netanyahu warned that splitting the right-wing vote could result in a left-wing government.
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