Gantz meets with Liberman as deadline to form government approaches

19 November 2019, 8:34 pm

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Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz is meeting with Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman as he makes a final push to form a government before tomorrow night’s deadline.

According to a Channel 13 report, Liberman has told Gantz he won’t join a so-called narrow government of right-wing and religious parties, while also informing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud he won’t back a minority government supported by the Joint List of majority Arab parties.

Liberman campaigned on forcing a unity government between Likud and Blue and White if neither could form a coalition without him after September’s Knesset elections, but unity efforts have so far failed to bear fruit.

Gantz will meet Netanyahu later this evening.