Yair Lapid's pollster revealed: I warned him all along that Meretz would not pass

November 5, 2022   

The collapse of the left, an exchange of accusations: Although Yair Lapid declared before the elections that according to all the polls in his possession, Labor and Meretz would pass the threshold - this evening (Saturday night), Amit Segal reported that his private pollster claims otherwise. According to the report on Channel 12, the Yesh Atid party pollster claimed that he had warned in advance that Meretz would not pass the threshold - as indeed happened. During the election broadcasts, senior political commentator Amit Segal published that Lapid's pollster claimed all along that Labor and Meretz were safe. Following the publication, pollster Mark Melman sent a clarifying email - which read: "The claim (made by Lapid) that Meretz and Labor passed me safely, completely and 100 percent is not true. In fact, the real situation is exactly the opposite." The American Melman claims that he had constantly warned of the danger to Meretz. According to the latest polls, any reasonable person could have assumed that the polls were inaccurate (59 seats for Netanyahu), but they gave between 4 and 5 seats to Meretz. This may have been what Lapid meant when he expressed confidence in Meretz's ability to pass, but the data showed a danger to Meretz. Yesh Atid said: "The news is incorrect. We are not aware of such information in any internal or external poll that was presented to us during the campaign. Both in the latest poll published by Mano Geva on Channel 12 and in the latest poll conducted for us by Mark Melman, Meretz had 5 seats. This does not change the fact that Yesh Atid has done everything to help Meretz in recent days.".