Direct Polls conducted a poll of 574 people with a 4.4% margin of error that was published by Channel 7 on January 14 2020.
Current Knesset seats in [brackets]
34 [33] Blue & White (Gantz)
32 [32] Likud (Netanyahu)
13 [13] The Joint List – Hadash-Taal-Raam-Balad (Odeh)
10 [10] Labor + Meretz (A.Peretz)
08 [09] Shas (Deri)
08 [08] Yisrael Beitenu (Lieberman)
08 [07] United Torah Judaism (Litzman)
07 [05] HaYamin HeHadash + National Union (Bennett)
Under 3.25% Electoral Threshold
2.4% [02] United Right List + Otzma (R.Peretz)
2.3% [01] Green Movement (Shaffir)
00 [00] Others
Phase 2 Recommendations:
57 [54/57] Center-Left-Arab Bloc (Nominated Gantz in Phase 2)
55 [55] Right-Religious Bloc (Nominated Netanyahu in Phase 2)
08 [08/11] Pushing Unity Government (Did not nominate)
*Balad which was part of the Joint List withdrew the recommendations of their 3 MKs.
Bayit Yehudi, Tkuma, and Otzmah as URL will cross the threshold with ease and receive no less than 5 Seats. They are at 4.4% not 2.4%. Don’t Panic, Don’t Scramble. Stick to Your Plan. 5 Lists: Likud, Shas, UTJ, URL and Yamin Hadash.
Had Barak’s Democratic Party run solo, it would had garnered 6 Seats at least in the last election.And as I said in a previous posting, he would have changed the whole political landscape. I meant he could have joined a Netanyahu Government and moved forward. But he wanted to be premier. He then panicked and started looking for mergers, and in the process pulled only two seats from Kahol/Lavan and Labor/Gesher instead of 6/8 Seats.
Deri had nerve to refuse lowering the threshold, didn’t panic and look where he is. Lieberman never panicked either. Mergers aren’t always the answer. Only in URL case.
Enough Already