After elections results published, Lapid says ‘Netanyahu has failed’

Blue and White MK Yair Lapid says the election results prove “[Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has failed.”

The prime minister’s Likud party pulled ahead of its rival, the Blue and White party, in Monday’s election, picking up 36 seats compared to its 33. But the prime minister does not have a clear path to a coalition government after Likud and its allies fall three seats of a parliamentary majority.

Monday’s election was the third in under a year.

“For the third time in a row, Netanyahu has failed,” tweets Lapid. “As he has said many times, ‘the majority rules,’ and the majority ruled that he… cannot become prime minister under indictment. We will make every effort to build a wide government led by Benny Gantz.”

He thanks the elections committee that oversaw the vote and pledges, “we will do everything so that we won’t need to come back to it for fourth elections.”