Lapid vows to fight expanded coalition

After the government approves an increase to the number of ministers, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid slams the “shameful” move, and vows to lead a protracted legal battle against it.

“The government of Israel made a decision today which I can only describe as shameful; to increase the size of the government and to bring back the Ministers without Portfolio,” he says in a statement.

“Every unnecessary minister creates hundreds of millions of shekels of activity around them — it’s easy to check in the previous budgets. We’ll fight it in the Knesset, we’ll fight it in the courts and we’ll fight it in the streets because it is a violation of the principles of democracy in which the government works for the people, not the people who create jobs for the government.

“We’ll create a parliamentary struggle which will go on for hours and days with every possible objection because it isn’t right, it isn’t just and it isn’t moral.”