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Elections 2009 / Lieberman predicts he'll win 30 seats next time around
By Lily Galili, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israeli Arab, Lieberman 

Avigdor Lieberman on Saturday predicted that his far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party will garner 30 seats in the next general election after Tuesday's. This would put the party on an equal footing with Likud and Kadima.

Such forecasts by the controversial politician, whose campaign against Israeli Arabs has sparked outrage, have often proved correct in the past. Before the 2006 election, he predicted that Yisrael Beiteinu would have a double-digit outcome, and it did indeed gain 11 seats.

Lieberman has also declared his ambition of gaining 15 seats in next week's election, while surveys in fact predict Yisrael Beiteinu even more than that.

He made the forecast at a campaign event in Be'er Sheva. At a meeting later in the day in Arad, Lieberman responded to what he labeled as mounting slander against his party.

"All of those who are not ready to commit themselves to what the people want, and what Yisrael Beiteinu says, is 'no loyalty, no citizenship,'" said Lieberman of his campaign slogan, directed against Israeli Arabs.

He added: "Everyone who is incapable of competing with us on the plane of ideology and issues is so to do this by means of lies and slander."




Blocs based on latest Haaretz-Dialog poll:

The right-wing bloc:

Likud (headed by Benjamin Netanyahu): 27 seats
Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel is our home" - a far-right pro-transfer party headed by Avigdor Lieberman): 18 seats
Shas (Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party headed by Eli Yishai): 9 seats
National Union-Habayit Hayehudi (coalition between two right-wing parties, the long-standing National Union and fledgling Habayit Hayehudi [the Jewish home]): 6 seats

The left-wing bloc:
Kadima (centrist party established by Ariel Sharon and now headed by Tzipi Livni): 25 seats
Labor (headed by Ehud Barak and formerly Israel's dominant party): 14 seats
New Movemment-Meretz (latest incarnation of the left-wing Meretz): 7 seats
Hadash (Jewish-Arab party formerly known as a communist party): 3 seats
United Arab List-Ta'al (a union of two predominantly Arab parties, the United Arab list and Ahmed Tibi's Ta'al): 3 seats
Balad (predominantly Arab party whose name is a Hebrew acronym for National Democratic Assembly): 2 seats

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