Starting to internalize? Shasha Biton: "Saar will not be prime minister with 9 mandates""

March 10, 2021   

MK Yifat Shasha Biton of the New Hope party said this evening (Wednesday), in an interview with Channel 13, that it is clear that her party leader Gideon Sa'ar will not be able to serve as prime minister - if the party wins a single-digit number of seats. In Israel, speeding is the norm: Why do we drive fast? ""Saar cannot be prime minister with nine seats," admitted Shasha Biton. According to her, in such a scenario, the political system would go to elections for the fifth time, because a decision between the blocs would not be reached. Last night, 'New Hope' received only 9 seats in a poll by News 13. Her party member Danny Dayan explained today in a conversation with Ben Caspit and Yinon Magal why his party is weakening in the polls. According to him, all the fire is aimed at them, and everyone is throwing it at them - because Saar is the only one who can serve as prime minister. Dayan: "None of us thought it would be an easy journey. We see that we are the sole target of attacks by all the trumpeters, by Bardugo and Eli Zippori and others." Dayan is in 11th place on the list, and if on election day 'New Hope' receives a single-digit number of seats, he will not enter the next Knesset. "I didn't sew suits when we had 18 seats in the polls, the question is not me," he said. "There are more important things than the fate of Danny Dayan, and that is the future of the country." He compared the state of Israeli politics to a broken engine, and explained that only Sa'ar can "put his hand in the engine and fix it without getting dirty." Dayan dismissed reports of a crisis in relations between him and the party chairman: "Go prove that you don't have a sister. Complete nonsense. My relations with Gideon Sa'ar are excellent." Are you worried? Dayan was asked - and he replied: "I am worried, the State of Israel has 3 options - either Netanyahu continues to be the Prime Minister, which in my opinion is a bad thing for the State of Israel; or Gideon Sa'ar becomes Prime Minister because he is the only one; or we go to a fifth election.".