Avigdor Liberman is negotiating with the chareidi parties, offering them a soft draft law in return for their support for a government under his leadership, Maariv reports. At the same time, he has warned that once such a government is formed, Likud MKs will defect to join it.
According to the report, a Likud source said: "There are those who are in contact with Liberman, talking to him, for example, David Bitan. But even he won't leave Likud, because Bitan is a Likudnik to the core." At this stage, however, there is no agreement with either United Torah Judaism or Shas, and Liberman's prediction that Likud MKs will cross over has not materialised.
