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National Unity MK says party rejected Likud offers to replace Smotrich, Ben Gvir in government
Then-culture minister Chili Tropper, in Tel Aviv, April 6, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90/File)
MK Chili Tropper, a member of the National Unity party headed by Benny Gantz, says that his party was offered to join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in place of far-right parties Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit — and refused.
“There have been inquiries, and we have said very clearly, it won’t happen,” Tropper says in an interview with the Knesset channel. “[They came] from senior officials in the Likud who said, ‘Come and save us from this government that we built and replace them’ — and the answer is no.”
