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Netanyahu camp seeks to oust far-rightist Feiglin from Likud line-up
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu 

An associate of Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu planned to submit an appeal on Tuesday to the party's election council that would likely deprive far-rightist Moshe Feiglin of a place in the next Knesset.

Netanyahu's former media adviser, Ophir Akunis, planned to petition the body to advance the positions of regional representatives on Likud's Knesset line-up.

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efore the primary, the 10 and 20 slots were reserved for women, and the those from 21 to 37 were reserved for regional representatives.

But after three women - Limor Livnat, Tzipi Hotobli and Gila Gamliel - were elected to slots below number 20, there was no need to reserve the positions.

Feiglin currently holds the number 20 slot. By handing it over to a regional representative, as Akunis will request, the council will push the far-rightist back to a position somewhere past 30.

Akunis' move came after Feiglin dealt a blow to Netanyahu's bid to cast Likud as Israel's moderate consensus party in the hard-fought primary, which also saw other hardliners dominate the top 10 slots.

Of the 10 candidates Netanyahu presented as new faces and returning Likud leaders - dubbed as his "stars" by Israeli media - only two hardliners, former Likud MK Benny Begin and ex-army chief Moshe Ya'alon, made the top 10.

By contrast, all of the top five candidates in the Monday contest, MK Gideon Sa'ar, MK Gilad Erdan, and former MKs Reuven Rivlin, Moshe Kachlon, and Begin, had won Feiglin's explicit endorsement.

After the primary, Kadima chair Tzipi Livni, who will face Netanyahu in the race for the premiership in February, used the opposition leader's nickname in calling the Likud election lineup "Bibi's problem."


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