PM ‘asked coalition factions for OK on Herzog joining government’

27 September 2016, 9:00 pm

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked coalition faction heads today if they would support the addition of the Zionist Union and its leader Isaac Herzog to the coalition, Channel 10 News and Haaretz report.

The faction leaders present all voiced their agreement to such a move, according to the reports.

Labor party leader Isaac Herzog attends a party conference in Tel Aviv on July 31, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Likud told Channel 10 that it was not Netanyahu who brought up the issue but “one of the faction heads who asked for the prime minister’s opinion on the matter.

“The prime minister made it clear that he had always sought to widen the coalition but it had so far not been achievable, and [said that] if there were a widening of the coalition it would only take place with all member factions in the current coalition.”