MK Eitan Cabel brands Labor leader Avi Gabbay a “liar” and again calls for him to resign, blaming him for the party’s current woes in election polls.
Speaking at what is meant to be a festive event to launch the opposition party’s election campaign, Cabel says he made a mistake to support Gabbay in the second round of the party’s leadership primaries in 2017 and lays into him for disbanding the Zionist Union alliance with Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua.
“You broke up the Zionist Union without consultations, you led, you navigated. This failure is completely Gabbay’s. We can still save these elections. This is the great moment, to create a front against [Prime Minister] Netanyahu in which the Labor party is the central axle,” says Cabel, a longtime Labor lawmaker.
Cabel was booed during his speech, as was Gabbay, highlighting the deep discontent among Labor voters over the public infighting between party leaders since early elections were called last month.
— with Raoul Wootliff
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