Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid issues a statement on the upcoming Knesset elections, attacking the current government and saying it has been failing for a long time and did not fall only today.
The government has “failed in security, the cost of living and in bringing about equal sharing of the burden [of serving in the IDF],” Lapid charges, referring to the ultra-Orthodox draft law, which this morning, he said he would oppose, after previously supporting it. That move has been regarded as the trigger for the dissolution of the coalition.
“Look where Netanyahu is taking us,” Lapid adds. “He tried to tell us there’s a war in the north — and there isn’t. He tried to tell us there’s no war in the south — and there is. Due to his criminal cases, everything for him is currently about political survival.”
“A government headed by me will safeguard security and work hard for the benefit of the citizens of the State of Israel.”
Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid gives a statement to the media, in the Knesset, on December 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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