Chairman Avi Gabbay of the Labor Party said on Sunday evening, "When we bring 30 seats [to coalition negotiations], everyone will want to be in our coalition." The current coalition is led by the Likud's 30 seats while the Zionist Union, comprised of Labor and Tzipi Livni's Hatnua Party, has 24.
Interviewed by Channel 2 Television in response to ministers Moshe Kahlon and Avigdor Liberman, who announced that they would not sit in a left-wing government after the next elections and would not join a coalition led by Gabbay, the Zionist Union leader said, "The only thing they are able to do is to create the correct feeling among the public that the next government will be headed by the center-left, headed by me, and we will establish a government that will benefit the people of Israel, which will act in favor of the important things, and will not advance spins like how to protect the prime minister from the investigations."