Lapid spokesperson: If results true, Likud must join us — sans Netanyahu

17 September 2019, 10:54 pm

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Prime Minister Netanyahu “lost,” a spokesperson for Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid says, calling on the Likud party to depose its longtime leader.

“Obviously it’s early and we have to wait for the real results. But if this is the picture,” Yair Zivan says of the exit polls, “it’s clear that Netanyahu lost.”

“We have said all along that we want a unity government, headed by Blue and White, with the Likud and [Avigdor] Liberman, but without Netanyahu. That’s also what the majority of the Israeli public wants,” Zivan tells The Times of Israel outside the centrist party’s campaign headquarter in Tel Aviv.

“Now it’s going to be up to the Likud, whether they act in the national interest, or not,” he concludes.

— Raphael Ahren