Blue and White MK Zvi Hauser, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former cabinet secretary now running on the rival Blue and White list, tells The Times of Israel that reports he and fellow faction member MK Yoaz Hendel are considering jumping ship to support a Netanyahu-led government are “complete rubbish.”
“There is no truth to it whatsoever,” he says. “We are a union of three parties [making up Blue and White] that ran as a unit to present an alternative [to Likud]. We will continue to do that.”
Commenting on the projected election results, Hauser says, “they are not the best and not the worst. What is clear is that there is no decisive decision.”
Asked if he would prefer a fourth round of elections to joining a unity government with Likud, he says, “We don’t want a fourth election, but a properly functioning country cannot be run by someone who is in court on Monday and in the security cabinet on Tuesday,” a reference to Netanyahu’s upcoming corruption trial.
— Raoul Wootliff
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