{"id":491314,"date":"2026-06-13T19:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T19:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/491314\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T19:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T19:46:18","slug":"netanyahu-could-challenge-election-defeat-in-jan-6-scenario-lawmaker-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/491314\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu could challenge election defeat in \u2018Jan. 6\u2019 scenario, lawmaker warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opposition MK Naama Lazimi warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> could attempt to challenge the results of the next election if he loses, comparing the risk to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The election date has not yet been set, though it is expected around mid-October. But opposition figures say they are not convinced that this week\u2019s 17-hour confrontation with Iran will be the last military escalation before voters go to the polls.<\/p>\n

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Naama Lazimi <\/p>\n

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\u201cI think Netanyahu is capable of anything, including starting a war to postpone the election,\u201d Lazimi, a member of The Democrats, said in an interview with Ynet\u2019s weekend supplement. \u201cI think Netanyahu acts out of political motives, but the fact that this question is constantly in the air also says something about the mood in the country, that this man is no longer fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if you support him, you are not sure of his motives,\u201d she said. \u201cFor him, everything is a political issue and personal motives, including playing with human life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lazimi accused Netanyahu of placing his own political survival above national security, pointing to the continuing controversy surrounding aides in his office who allegedly worked for Qatar while remaining close to the prime minister.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis man is truly the greatest cynic we have ever had,\u201d she said. \u201cHe puts himself above the state, and that is how he subordinates his entire coalition and government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lazimi also criticized coalition lawmakers who supported a bill to subsidize daycare for ultra-Orthodox men who do not serve in the military, saying some voted for it despite privately opposing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see people voting according to coalition discipline for something they not only do not believe in, but that is against national security, against IDF soldiers, against the economy,\u201d she said. \u201cBut Bibi-ism is above everything. If Netanyahu needs the ultra-Orthodox parties, that comes before the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The opposition lawmaker said Netanyahu\u2019s political survival after the October 7 massacre reflected both his lack of moral responsibility and the opposition\u2019s failure to respond quickly enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest mistake we made, and my greatest pang of conscience, is that we thought Bibi was finished and that there was no chance they could survive such a disaster,\u201d she said. \u201cWe should have understood that when you are dealing with a man without restraints, he finds every way to recover, including conspiracies and blackening the entire security establishment, just so blame does not stick to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <\/p>\n

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Lazimi said the anti-Netanyahu bloc should have organized earlier and more tightly after October 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to be much more organized as one bloc, in full coordination, without calculating the poll of this week or that week,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are ideological gaps between me and many of my partners in the change bloc, but there is also so much agreement on the most basic things, from establishing a state commission of inquiry to equality in the burden of military service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lazimi said she could sit in a coalition with right-wing figures such as former prime minister Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Liberman if the shared goal was to replace Netanyahu\u2019s government and rebuild democratic institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not here to be a purist,\u201d she said. \u201cI am here to protect the country of your children and mine. I do not have the privilege of giving these corrupt Kahanists another term.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lazimi argued that Likud is already preparing the ground to challenge the legitimacy of the election process by attacking the Central Elections Committee and its chairman, Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to win by knockout,\u201d she said. \u201cThe 61 seats we will get, that is clear to me from the polls, but we need 65. Why? Because then he will not have the ability to do a Capitol Hill. He will not be able to challenge the election results, and then you will see the arrows inside Likud turn against Netanyahu.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lazimi said the opposition\u2019s task is to win several seats from the pro-Netanyahu bloc, arguing that some voters who once supported him have not yet \u201cfreed themselves from his political grip\u201d even when harmed by his policies.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am not saying I will bring all of Bibi\u2019s 20 seats,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we as a bloc will bring those extra three or four seats. It will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

She rejected the claim that the left cannot appeal to Likud voters, saying her work on public housing, teachers\u2019 status and early childhood education has already drawn support from communities traditionally identified with the right.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is work,\u201d she said. \u201cAnyone who thinks some billboard will make the difference is not in the event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lazimi said the next government should immediately establish a state commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding October 7, pass legislation regulating Basic Laws, stop funding schools that do not teach core curriculum and strengthen the status of legal and democratic gatekeepers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are steps to fortify democracy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also backed party leader Yair Golan\u2019s position that parties in the coalition that governed during the October 7 disaster should not be part of the next government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a matter of boycotts,\u201d Lazimi said. \u201cIt is a matter of national interest. Those who brought us to the hardest place the country has ever known should not be part of the next government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition MK Naama Lazimi warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could attempt to challenge the results of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-491314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}