Opposition Leader Yair Lapid urges the coalition’s Blue and White party to back his proposal for dissolving the Knesset and calling new elections, which is slated to be voted on Wednesday.
“In 48 hours we can bring to an end the worst government in the history of the country. In 48 hours we’ll vote on a law to disperse the Knesset,” Lapid says during a Yesh Atid-Telem faction meeting.
He calls on Blue and White, which he ran with during three election campaigns but split from over party chief Benny Gantz’s decision to join a Netanyahu-led government, to stop being “accomplices” of the prime minister.
“You had good intentions, it didn’t work. Now it’s time to make amends,” Lapid says. “You’re not sitting in a unity government but in a bloated, corrupt government that’s causing incredible damage to the Israeli economy. Infection rates are increasing again… We need a government that will work for the citizens of Israel.”
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