Lapid: If new elections called, we’ll put forward bill to disqualify Netanyahu

Knesset opposition head Yair Lapid says in an interview with Channel 13 that if new elections are called, he will put forward a bill that would disqualify Netanyahu from running for prime minister.

“We will immediately put for a vote a bill that will not allow a candidate under indictments to run for prime minister,” Lapid says.

Lapid, who leads the Yesh Atid party, says he expects Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party to back the move.

“At least once they will keep a promise to voters,” Lapid says of Blue and White.

Lapid says his faction is prepared for an election.

“I’m talking with everyone who is relevant to political life. I’m talking with all of the Knesset: with Arabs, ultra-Orthodox, the religious Zionists,” he says.

On Twitter, Lapid says there will be no cabinet meeting tomorrow, writing that the weekly discussion was, “Canceled. At the height of the crisis. You are out of your minds.”

“There is a country here to run,” he writes.