Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid calls for the forming a unity government in order to break the ongoing political logjam.
“We have to form a government that will unite us. Not a right-wing government, not a left-wing government but an Israeli unity government,” he says in a press conference.
“I want to echo something that my friend Naftali Bennett said last week: Israel cannot afford fifth elections. Israel needs a government.”
“In this Israeli unity government, there will be three right-wing parties [Yamina, New Hope and Yisrael Beytenu], two centrist parties [Yesh Atid and Blue and White] and two left-wing parties [Labor and Meretz]. That’s what unity looks like. When different people with different opinions decide to work together.”
“That’s our goal. To form a government whose strength will be drawn from its commitment to the good of the country. There will be different worldviews but we are all Zionists, we are all Israeli patriots,” he adds.
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