Lapid says Netanyahu ‘obstacle’ to national unity government

Blue and White number 2 Yair Lapid implores for his opposition party to be allowed to form a coalition, saying that Netanyahu is  standing in the way of a unity government.

“Netanyahu didn’t win the election. We have exactly the same number of seats as Likud. If he fails to form a government then it passes to us,” he says at a press conference shortly after party chief Benny Gantz said the party wouldn’t support a bill to dissolve the Knesset.

“Let us form a government. The public wants a national unity government. Netanyahu is an obstacle to a unity government. If someone else stands at the head of Likud, anyone except Netanyahu, we can form a national unity government.”

“Instead of someone suspected of criminal offenses, interested only in himself, Israel needs a fair and clean government that gets things done for the public,” he says. “A national unity government between Blue and White and Likud, led by any other Likud MK. This is the time. It’s the right thing.”