Party Defends Candidate After Election Poll Failures
Translated & summarized from Behadrei Haredim by baba
Ofer Winter's party, Am Ech Israel, is defending his candidacy after exit polls showed he would not pass the electoral threshold. Party sources claim Winter's withdrawal would have hurt the right-wing bloc and benefited the left. They also argue that most votes for Am Ech did not come from current coalition voters, refuting claims of wasted votes.
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- Ofer Winter's party, Am Ech Israel, faces criticism after failing to pass the electoral threshold in polls.
- Party officials claim Winter's withdrawal would have negatively impacted the right-wing bloc.
- They argue that rivals Handel and Zelicha would have gained mandates, benefiting the left.
- The party asserts that most votes for Am Ech were not from current coalition supporters.
- This refutes claims that Winter's candidacy resulted in wasted votes.
Following exit polls indicating that Ofer Winter's party, Am Ech Israel, would not pass the electoral threshold, party officials are pushing back against criticism that Winter's candidacy wasted votes. Sources within the party presented an initial analysis of the poll data, which they claim shows that Winter's withdrawal would have harmed the right-wing bloc. "The results show with certainty that if Ofer Winter had withdrawn, the map of mandates would have certainly changed for the worse for the right-wing bloc," they stated. They further argued that "Handel and Zelicha would have passed the electoral threshold, thus adding four additional mandates to the left-wing bloc." The party also asserted that "it can already be clearly stated that the vast majority of votes that came to the Am Ech party were not from coalition voters, and therefore the argument about 'wasted votes' is absurd."
