Shaked warns her partners: 'You don't understand how hard it is to pass the electoral threshold'

Ayelet Shaked warns her partners in talks about a joint list that they underestimate the difficulty of passing the electoral threshold. Shaked, whose personal experience includes failure in the 2019 elections with 'The New Right' and in 2022 with 'The Jewish Home', argues that mobilizing a base and bringing voters is more complex than they assess. According to her, competition for the same voter pool with Gilad Erdan, Yoaz Hendel, and Chili Tropper makes it even harder.

Ayelet Shaked warns her partners in talks about forming a joint list that they underestimate the difficulty of passing the electoral threshold. In internal conversations revealed to Walla, Shaked said that mobilizing a base and bringing voters is a much more complex task than they assess. Shaked brings personal experience: in the 2019 elections, she and Naftali Bennett left The Jewish Home and established 'The New Right', but the party did not pass the electoral threshold. Also in the 2022 elections, when she headed The Jewish Home, she failed. According to her, today the competition for the same voter pool with Gilad Erdan, Yoaz Hendel, and Chili Tropper makes it even harder. The talks between Benny Gantz, Dedi Simchi, Yuli Edelstein, and Shaked have not yet matured into agreements, and at the center of the discussions are questions of leadership, the composition of the list, and the ability to generate significant political power without losing votes below the electoral threshold.

Shaked warns her partners: 'You don't understand how hard it is to pass the electoral threshold'