With Labor still licking its wounds from Tuesday's primary embarrassment, Likud seems to have bridged its own primaries chasm. The party's chairman, Benjamin Netanyahu, reached a settlement with Likud officials on increasing the number of candidate slots on the primary ticket from 10 to 12.
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Netanyahu held a series of furtive meetings with his associates throughout the day, and also spoke with party brass in an attempt to find a compromise acceptable to all parties.
Earlier in the afternoon a senior Likud official told Ynet that raising the number to over 12 "would constitute a declaration of war against the sitting MKs."
In addition to this it was determined that candidates for the immigrant slot would run in a separate primary elections and not in the national one. This was also done to try and thwart the election of Feiglin's choice
for the immigrant slot – Asia Antov.
All the decisions are pending the approval of the Likud's central committee, which is set to convene soon. It was supposed to have begun at 5 pm, but as of 6:30 the doors have yet to open due to the negotiations.
One central committee member said: "I don't understand why they're dragging it out. Never mind the mess in Likud, but we may end up missing the double elimination on Big Brother."
_a.jpg "Feiglin - Blocked? Photo: Yaron Brener")
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