Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday with leaders of parties from the right-wing bloc to discuss the future of negotiations to form a unity government after talks with Blue and White went south, with the center-left list pulling out of the most recent scheduled meeting to, in its officials' own words, "weaken" Netanyahu.
During the meeting of right-wing party leaders, the possibility of Netanyahu giving up his mandate from President Reuven Rivlin to form the next government was raised.
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Likud ministers Yariv Levin and Zeev Elkin argued that Blue and White's negotiation team had canceled the latest meeting because No. 2 on its list, Yair Lapid, had compelled leader Benny Gantz to hold a third election. They said that Lapid did not want Gantz to rotate with Netanyahu for the position of prime minister in a unity government, but in fact, wanted to rotate with Gantz himself in a government without Netanyahu.
The meeting ended with the party leaders agreeing to continue working together.
