Commentator Amit Segal: Without this, Netanyahu will not achieve a coalition of 61

December 12, 2021   

Amit Segal, the senior political commentator for News 12, told followers of his Instagram account today (Sunday) that opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu will not succeed in forming a coalition of 61 in the Knesset - without a new right-wing party being established. Segal wrote: "Without a new right-wing party, Netanyahu will not achieve 61. He needs a center-right party that will bring votes from a camp other than Bibi. If he doesn't do that, he will not return to power." Segal wrote in his weekly column in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper last Friday: "The Likud has recently started courting familiar figures in order to establish a party that will finally crush Yamina and shrink religious Zionism. Netanyahu likes his partners small and obedient, and Smotrich is not obedient and is no longer so small.".