Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, who this week joined forces with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel to form the Zionist Spirit Party, is hinting that she would not oppose joining a government led by Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu.
In an interview with Channel 13 News, which will air in full on Saturday night and of which excerpts aired on Friday, Shaked said, “You cannot boycott more than a million Likud voters. At the end of the day, we’re a democratic country, and we will have to accept the decision of the voter.”
“[Netanyahu] heads a party, which will likely be the largest party, with more than one million voters, and they cannot be boycotted. Simple as that,” she added.
At the same time, Shaked stressed that she would be against a narrow government of 61 MKs.
“We will form a wide government, not a narrow government of 61, a wide government, and we will know how to unite the central forces to a large, nationalist Zionist government,” she said.
Shaked also outright rejected the notion that she will drop out of the race should polls show the Zionist Spirit failing to pass the electoral threshold.
“There’s no such scenario. You will see that we will do well. I will say it again: There is a wide and large public for whom this party is home…we are running till the end,” she stated.
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