Moshe Feiglin, candidate for head of the Likud party, said on Tuesday that the party will attract voters when it “readopts its ideological identity.” Once that happens, he said, voters will “know how to distinguish between us and Kadima.”
Likud won a landslide election in 2001 with Ariel Sharon at the helm. Since Sharon left the party to form Kadima a few weeks ago, polls show the Likud sinking to unprecedented lows, to perhaps as few as ten Knesset seats in the upcoming elections. Before the breakup into Kadima, the party held 40 seats in the Knesset.
Feiglin, who heads the nationalist “Jewish Leadership” faction in the party said he is in the race to stay. One of Feiglin’s rivals on the right, MK Uzi Landau, who led the campaign in the Likud and the Knesset against the Disengagement Plan, pulled out of the race yesterday. Landau said he would support MK Binyamin Netanyahu for Likud leader.
“Polls and lies don’t interest me,” Feiglin said. “I think that my candidacy most clearly represents Likud members. I’m sure that my ideas will win, if not now, than some time in the future.”
Feiglin said that Landau’s decision to withdraw from the race shows that only a candidate with Jewish religious faith can win the race. “Only a candidate who [fears] G-d,” he said.
Likud won a landslide election in 2001 with Ariel Sharon at the helm. Since Sharon left the party to form Kadima a few weeks ago, polls show the Likud sinking to unprecedented lows, to perhaps as few as ten Knesset seats in the upcoming elections. Before the breakup into Kadima, the party held 40 seats in the Knesset.
Feiglin, who heads the nationalist “Jewish Leadership” faction in the party said he is in the race to stay. One of Feiglin’s rivals on the right, MK Uzi Landau, who led the campaign in the Likud and the Knesset against the Disengagement Plan, pulled out of the race yesterday. Landau said he would support MK Binyamin Netanyahu for Likud leader.
“Polls and lies don’t interest me,” Feiglin said. “I think that my candidacy most clearly represents Likud members. I’m sure that my ideas will win, if not now, than some time in the future.”
Feiglin said that Landau’s decision to withdraw from the race shows that only a candidate with Jewish religious faith can win the race. “Only a candidate who [fears] G-d,” he said.