After a day of confusion, Tibi and Odeh—leaders of the two pro-Gantz parties within Joint List—wrote a letter to Rivlin clarifying that the Joint List did not, in fact, have a unity agreement that legally binds individual parties to follow the party's nomination for the prime minister. The President can see the picture and should call on the winner to form the next government. The party was initially interested in running in a joint list with the New Right, but was rejected when the New Right decided to run with the URWP instead. Blue and White supporters were ecstatic over their party's performance in the election. ", "I'm very touched that, for the fifth time, the people of Israel have believed in me.". That night, and into the morning of 30 May, the Knesset passed second and third readings of the bill to dissolve itself and force a snap election with a vote of 74 in favour to 45 against. Two exit polls showed Netanyahu on track to form Israel's next government, with support from the religious right. 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Shas declared early on that it was going to support Benjamin Netanyahu for prime minister, and ruled out sitting with Blue and White, due to disagreements with Blue and White leader Yair Lapid. Shas is a Mizrahi and Sephardi Haredi party, primarily concerned with rights and funding for those demographics.