Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to form a minority government, with the backing of the Arab parties.
“It’s obvious that the minority government that Netanyahu is planning with the Haredim and the Arabs will be established at the expense of the military-serving public… and tax-paying public,” says Liberman.
“It appears that in Likud, they understood that they won’t have 61 seats without Yisrael Beytenu [after the September elections] and therefore decided to move toward this step with Arab parties,” he adds.
The Likud party calls his comments “fake news.”
“It’s fake news that is disconnected from reality,” says Likud. “There never was and never will be coordination between Likud and the Arab parties. Prime Minister Netanyahu will work to form a right-wing government led by Likud.”
Netanyahu failed to form a majority government in late May, after Liberman refused to join the coalition over disagreements on the ultra-Orthodox military enlistment law.
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