Likud responds with a rebuttal: "Saar was defeated and is leaving because of the polls""

December 8, 2020   

Likud responded this evening (Tuesday) to MK Gideon Sa'ar's announcement that he was leaving the movement - with a retraction, claiming that the reason for this is the internal polls indicating his expected decline in the primaries. What is a “shared car price list”? How will the prices be displayed in the price list? All the details ""Saar is leaving because he was defeated in the primaries and that in the internal Likud polls conducted in recent days, he is falling to the second ten," the party said. The Likud added: "Saar, who swore time and again that 'Likud is my home and I will not resign if I lose, I do not believe in party splinters' - was defeated, broke all his promises and abandoned Likud precisely at a time when Prime Minister Netanyahu is bringing millions of vaccines to Israeli citizens, reducing morbidity and mortality to one of the lowest levels in the world and bringing historic peace agreements. "Saar decided to abandon the right, join Lapid and join a long list of politicians who abandoned Likud and then completely crashed. As in the past, Likud will remain united and cohesive, and if it is dragged into elections - it will win." Knesset Speaker MK Yariv Levin: "Gideon Saar did something he would not do. He ran for the Likud leadership, pledged to accept the democratic decision, and in complete contrast to the path that Menachem Begin instructed us to take, he turned his back on Likud voters and Likud members and broke his promise. "What we saw tonight is a repeat of what we have already seen in the past - our friend Moshe Kahlon also left Likud and eventually joined the Likud government and returned to the Likud movement. Others who left Likud, like Tzipi Livni, also very quickly lost the public's trust and are outside the Knesset. "The Likud movement is strong. The path of Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Likud leadership is a path that has led to unprecedented peace agreements, to placing Israel at the top of the countries receiving vaccines before the great powers. A path of determination and economic strength. "With our path and our cohesion, we will win." Minister Miri Regev attacked MK Gideon Sa'ar for leaving the Likud and, in a post she published on Facebook, called the movement he announced his establishment "Sa'ar's Ulpan Party." "The Likud Party is a strong and rooted party, with a path and leadership that are democratically elected by its members, not a party of Ulpans and atmosphere," Regev noted. "Unfortunately, Gideon Sa'ar tonight violated his past statements that he would remain loyal to the Likud and chose to join the 'Not Bibi' camp. As if we haven't learned from history that all attempts to split the right have ended in retreats and displacements. We will not repeat the mistakes of the past." According to her, "Saar says he cannot be a member of the Likud movement for supposedly ideological reasons, but the truth is that he is leaving only because he was not elected chairman of the party. This is not loyalty to the path but ego struggles and failure to accept the voter's verdict. In this, Saar is following the path of others who did not accept the voters' decision, Tzipi Livni, Bogy Ya'alon, Dan Meridor and others.". MK Nir Barkat attacked Saar: "It is unfortunate that in a time of national crisis there are those who choose once again to run away from the battle and divide instead of uniting. I am proud to be part of the Likud movement, a deep-rooted and strong movement that will continue to lead the country in the face of the great challenges facing us." Netanyahu's advisor Topaz Locke responded to Saar's statement with a tweet: "One big yawn.". MK Shlomo Karai also attacked Saar: "Saar, like Boogie in his time, suddenly decided that 'the Likud has changed its face'... the exact same Likud movement that only a year ago he ran for its leadership. What changed? He simply lost big. "You can always discredit the Likudists in order to get more media hugs. But we also always move on. When they answer him, he will multiply and he will break out." On the other hand, opposition leader Yair Lapid said: "I congratulate Gideon Saar on his courageous decision to embark on an independent path. Our opinions differ on many issues, but Israeli politics needs decent and caring people who do not surrender to power and corruption.".