‘I don’t want to clean up after Benjamin Netanyahu’
In his first interview after elections, Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog spoke to Army Radio Thursday morning about his defeat in the 20th Knesset elections and Israel’s political outlook in light of the results.
Herzog said he had gone to bed around 2 a.m. Wednesday after polls had closed, believing his party had tied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, only to find out from a text message at 6:45 a.m. from his faction’s co-leader Tzipi Livni of the reality that Likud had pulled ahead by at least five mandates.
Herzog stated that he was surprised by the Likud party’s sweeping victory indicated by ballot counts Wednesday morning.