Meretz MK urges Blue and White to ditch Netanyahu, claims enough support for alternative government

With possible new elections looming, Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg calls on the coalition’s Blue and White party to ditch Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and form an alternative government, claiming there’s a majority in the Knesset to do so.

“The center-left bloc has a majority [of] 61 in the current Knesset. All that needs to be done is for Blue and White to vote in favor of a constructive no-confidence [vote] on Monday… and there’s a government that will pass a budget and can deal with citizens and not with itself, without elections or racism,” she writes on Twitter.

Despite Zandberg’s assertion, there doesn’t appear to be a majority in the Knesset for the move, as Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel and MK Zvi Hauser of the Derech Eretz faction of Blue and White — whose support would be needed — have previously ruled out working with the majority-Arab Joint List party to form a government without Netanyahu.