Likud Committee Faces Sunday Vote on Netanyahu Slate-Control Plan
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Likud's Constitution Committee is set to decide Sunday on the rules for the party's 26th-Knesset slate after a Saturday-night update described competing plans that would sharply narrow member voting. Reports said Netanyahu's camp is pushing either a primary with reserved slots for his picks or a hybrid system in which an arranging committee places sitting ministers and MKs while primaries remain mainly for districts and representation slots. Earlier reporting put the emerging package between eight and 11 reserved slots, with the August 4 primary still on the calendar. The fight tests Likud's internal democratic tradition as Israel's campaign turns on list control, service-policy dissent and right-wing bloc discipline.
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Sources factually disagree on how many reserved slots are at issue and how settled the mechanism is: N12 says two options face Sunday's vote, including a possible arranging committee; Ynet says Netanyahu's unprecedented mini-primary plan still needs Sunday approval; Israel Hayom reports Netanyahu is expected to seek nine reserved slots; Walla says an insider put the lower bound at eight and said Netanyahu wants 11; and Israel National News earlier reported an emerging deal of eight slots in the first 25 and two more by slot 40. The remaining facts are uniform: Likud institutions are deciding the 26th-Knesset slate rules, Netanyahu seeks reserved slots and more control over the list, Haim Katz is central to the committee track, an arranging-committee model is under discussion, and the primaries are on the August 4 calendar.
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