If the Haredim support a candidate that's a very GOOD reason NOT to vote for that candidate.

The datim want a secular mayor to extort more money. Thet know they will get nothing from any dati .

Barkat has been a very good mayor .Even though I dont live in Yerushalayim I work there and see the changes in the city . Kol Hakavod to him for getting the light rail going !! If Lupilianski was mayor we would be waiting for years !!

The Ynet reporter or professors Halevi and Rivkind? Both strongly deny any such contacts. The truth is that the charedim will never vote for a mayor candidate who does not observe Shabbat, and not a single rabbi will tell them to do so. The charedim will have their own candidate who will surely win. And this will restore justice, because thanks to them Jerusalem has a constant Jewish majority for over 150 years. If it hadn't been for the Torah Jews, Jerusalem would be another Arab city like Hebron or Shchem. More than that: Israel wouldn't have existed.