Labor party secretary-general Eran Harmoni urges lawmakers to support opposition leader Isaac Herzog’s effort to form an alternate coalition, sans Netanyahu’s Likud, without resorting to new elections.
“This is our moral and ethical obligation toward the citizens of Israel in general, and toward our voters in particular, who are hoping for change in the country,” he says in a statement.
But Labor lawmakers seeking the party leadership in the July primaries have said they will not support the move.
MK Erel Margalit says Labor “must choose a leader within 30 days and gear up for elections.”
MK Amir Peretz says he will lodge a bill to dissolve the Knesset.
Meanwhile, MK Omer Bar-Lev, who is also vying for the party leadership, tweets: “There is no such thing as an alternate government.”
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