The elections for the 25th Knesset will be held in less than three months and the lists are moving towards their closing. The Likud movement will elect its representatives to the Knesset next Wednesday (August 10) when its approximately 120,000 functionaries will elect their candidates.
The sampling company “Direct Falls” owned by Shlomo Filber presented this morning its forecast regarding the top seven of those who have been defining themselves as the ruling party for years. “The list is quite surprising and is based on a picture of trends that we have been identifying for a long time. The ranking of the names below is not by location, because of the influence of the expected deals. T.L.H. for short,” the company’s announcement reads.
The leading seven on the Likud list for the 25th Knesset:
- Avi Dichter
- Eli Cohen
- Amir Ohana
- My uncle Amsalam
- Yoav Galant
- Rival Levin
- Nir Barkat
The chairman of the Likud’s election committee, Judge Menachem Naaman, rejected yesterday the candidacy of Dodi Laniadou, who ran for the Tel Aviv district seat, due to his criminal record. Naaman said: “When we were brought up with the fact that Mr. Laniadow was convicted of other criminal acts, it seems that I have to trust him The desire of the majority of the members of the election committee to order the disqualification of Mr. Laniado’s candidacy to be the movement’s candidate for the Knesset – and so I order.”
After last week’s reports that Yonatan Urich, the spokesman for former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud movement, will run for a place on the party’s list for the next Knesset, this week Urich decided not to run.