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Likud Urges to Vote for Ruling Party to Block Left-Wing Coalition

© REUTERS / Amir CohenA portrait of Likud legislator Miri Regev is seen on a trailer, used for campaigning, during a stop in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv February 25, 2015
A portrait of Likud legislator Miri Regev is seen on a trailer, used for campaigning, during a stop in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv February 25, 2015 - Sputnik International
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One of the Likud party leaders, Zeev Elkin said that Likud urges voters to choose Netanyahu's party over its "satellites" in the right camp.

Isaac Herzog, co-leader of the centre-left Zionist Union, gestures during a campaign stop at a fruit and vegetable market in Tel Aviv March 12, 2015 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik), Svetlana Alexandrova — Likud urges voters to choose Netanyahu's party over its "satellites" in the right camp if they want to block the left-centrist coalition from forming the next government after the elections on March 17, one of the party's leaders told Sputnik on Thursday.

"We urge our electorate to choose Likud over other right-wing parties-satellites if they don't want to see a left-wing government being established," center-right parliamentarian from Likud and chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Zeev Elkin told Sputnik.

Under Israel's electoral system, the duty to form the next government does not automatically fall to the leader of the largest party but rather to the political figure that has the best chance of putting together a coalition government.

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According to the lawmaker, recent polls suggest that Netanyahu still has a good chance of forming Israel's next government as the ruling party has more natural political partners in the parliament than its main challenger Isaac Herzog. The center-left Zion Union would need a big lead in order to form a like-minded coalition.

"We still have time till the elections, and the polls' results may change," Zeev Elkin asserted underlining that over 10 percent of voters remain undecided.

The battle for the undecided voter will continue to escalate as a major right-wing rally is set for Sunday in Tel Aviv. Titled "United for the Land of Israel," the rally is being organized in response to Saturday night's left-wing demonstration when over 40,000 demonstrators gathered, demanding Benjamin Netanyahu be replaced.

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According to the organizers of the rally, hundreds of buses have been organized to bring demonstrators to Tel Aviv.

The latest poll, published by Haaretz on Thursday, indicates a growing lead for Labor party leader Isaac Herzog and centrist Tzipi Livni's Zionist Union over Netanyahu's party. The Zionist Union is polling 24 seats in the Knesset seat against 21 for Likud.

On March 17, Israel will hold the 20th parliamentary elections. In December 2014, Netanyahu declared that he wanted the Parliament to be dissolved and to hold an early elections in March, two years before the fixed date.

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