Top Likud minister: There will be no rotation of premiership

Foreign Minister Israel Katz of the Likud party says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be sharing the premiership under a rotation deal should he win the September elections.

Katz’s comments come a day after Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman did not rule out the possibility of rotating the position with Netanyahu in a future coalition government.

Sources close to Liberman later walked back that possibility, telling the Hebrew-language media in a statement that there was “no option” for rotation with Netanyahu and that the “efforts are focused on building a wide, national, liberal government.”

“There will be no rotation, that’s clear,” Katz tells Army Radio. “Netanyahu is prime minister, he is the candidate, and a majority of the public [supports him].”