To maximize votes in the next elections, one of two things need to happen: either divide the forces or unite them
What a few hundred votes can do.
This column was planned for Tuesday night. The 60th mandate seemed to be at hand. A few votes from some corona polling stations, another push from yeshivah bochurim who voted at more accessible polling stations and there it would be: mandate number 60. Then we could be on the way to forming a new government that would bring an end to this saga that has lasted more than a year.
Even the list of credits was ready, with its bulldozers, chiefs of staffs and strategists. By Wednesday morning, none of it remained. With only 58 mandates left in the right wing block, it’s virtually impossible to form a government.
And if that’s not enough, Avigdor Liberman is still quite high on his horse. Once again, he is the most significant player in the field. True, he lost 50,000 votes since last time, but except for a clipped wing, everything has stayed the same.
What’s the lesson?
A bit of modesty, a bit of humility.
And what is sad here is that this a loss without anyone to blame. Everyone gave it their all. They worked hard. Seventy-year-old Netanyahu bounced around like a man years younger, climbing stairs and shaking tens of thousands of hands The turnout also broke 20 year records; people came out en masse for the fourth time this year, including local municipal elections.
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