Less than 24 hours after saying that New Right was running alone as a liberal, right-wing party, Bennett hails unity of entire spectrum of religious-Zionist world; Otzma and Bayit Yehudi are defiant.
In effect, this union results in one similar to the Yamina party from the September elections, excluding Rafi Peretz and the Bayit Yehudi party.
Merger negotiations between The National Union and Bayit Yehudi have broken down, as both parties seek ways to clear the electoral threshold and not lose votes for the Right.
Bayit Yehudi and National Union still in negotiations for joint run.
The issue of the political future of the former minister of Justice, is one of the open questions ahead of upcoming elections.
New Right will also target Blue and White voters in Tel Aviv and the Sharon coastal district.
Former Bayit Yehudi leaders Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked tried in vain to make the party more socially liberal and less beholden to the religious-Zionist rabbis.
"He is treated in an official manner that he does not deserve."
In a convention for The New Right party, Defense Minister Naftali Bennet said that despite the merger with Likud for the current Knesset, in a third election the party will run independently.
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