Dozens of Likud branch chairmen and members of Likud’s Central Committee published a petition this week demanding that party chairman, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, add the Jewish Home to his coalition and avoid a “unity” government with Labor at any cost.

One of the people behind the petition is Likud’s Rosh Ha’ayin Branch Chairman Mati Yitzchak, a veteran activist. “The entire world has heard Prime Minister Netanyahu’s public statements, all along the campaign, and therefore we must make sure that the Jewish Home becomes a partner in the coalition, in any case,” he said.

“We must respect the will of the Israeli voter, who clearly chose a right-wing government,” he added. “We committed to the voter that a right-wing government would be established, and that was the motto all along the campaign, from the outset, and that is also why we got 30 Knesset seats – a large part of which, according to the vote analysis, came from the settlements, at the expense of the Jewish Home.”

The petition called on Netanyahu to avoid “any dialogue” with the Zionist Union party – as the union between Labor and Hatnua is called – about establishing a unity government.

“It is time to establish a right-wing government,” the petition stated. “God forbid we repeat past mistakes, when Likud joined forces with parties that turned against us abnd did not allow the prime minister to run the affairs of state, by placing obstacles on his path at every step and turn. The prime minister must include Jewish Home Party Chairman Naftali Bennett in the establishment of the government in a dignified way, as a partner who contributed much to the establishment of a nationalist government.”