Kulanu shot down on Sunday the Israel Hayom report that it is may present a joint candidate list with the centrist Yesh Atid party in the April 9 election.
According to the Israel Hayom report, Yesh Atid was actively exploring the option of merging its list with Kulanu and has commissioned an internal poll to test the waters.
But Kulanu dismissed this possibility and noted that its chief, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, has already ruled that it would compete on its own "despite reports on a possible joint list emerge every other day."
The party said that "unlike other parties that seek conflict and strife within Israeli society, Kulanu actually cares about Israelis and puts people first."
Each party running for the Knesset compiles a list of up 120 potential Knesset candidates. The number of representatives of each party who actually wind up serving in the Knesset is based on the percentage of the vote the party gets in a Knesset election.
But parties that don't reach the electoral threshold by winning at least 3.25% of the valid vote stay out of the Knesset. According to the latest Israel Hayom-i24NEWS poll from Friday, Kulanu is set to be wiped out because it is would not cross the threshold.
The internal Yesh Atid poll gauged a situation in which Yesh Atid leader would lead a merged list with Kulanu, followed immediately by Kahlon.
Lapid has already said that if his party was to run on a joint ticket with another party, this would only happen if he remains at the top.
