Gantz says there’s no way to avert elections, denies unity bid with Netanyahu

26 June 2019, 4:28 pm

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Blue and White leader Benny Gantz says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is misleading the public with his calls to cancel the September elections, saying such a maneuver is “legally impossible.”

“Netanyahu lost it… Netanyahu pressed the button to dissolve the Knesset and there is no way back,” says Gantz at a press conference. “What we’ve seen is the past few days is Netanyahu’s ‘House of Cards’-esque spin.”

“Netanyahu is once again misleading the citizens of the State of Israel,” says Gantz.

He rejects the possibility of forming a unity government now with Likud, ahead of the September vote, and said Netanyahu did not contact the centrist party during coalition negotiations last month.