The public wants a unity government, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an obstacle to a unity government, MK Yair Lapid, co-leader of the center-Left Blue and White party, said Monday as right-wing lawmakers worked feverishly to prevent an early election.
Blue and White co-leader Benny Gantz said, ""Netanyahu is leading Israel to a serious crisis of confidence. The silence of the lambs in the Likud is embarrassing – they are paralyzed by fear. We are witnessing dark days for the Likud movement … the possibility of assembling a coalition should pass to Blue and White under my leadership.
"We are saying, here and now, we will continue our battle for as long as necessary – tyranny will not arise and will not exist here," Gantz said.
Gantz added that Blue and White would oppose the dissolution of the current Knesset.
"Netanyahu will try to survive. That is his belief, but the country belongs to all of us, and we will keep fighting," he said.
MK Itzik Shmuli (Labor) said that all the opposition parties would vote against the bill to dissolve the Knesset and hold an early election.
"Voting for it means extending Netanyahu's political life, but the moment we take the mandate away from him, new options for forming an alternative coalition could open up," Shmuli explained.
