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UTJ’s Litzman plays hardball, says Lapid can ‘be in opposition for one term’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUnited Torah Judaism leader Yaakov Litzman tells Israel Radio that his party will decide only after the election who to recommend as prime minister.
“I owe nothing to no one,” says Litzman, when asked about a potential partnership with Yair Lapid in any future government. “Yair Lapid can sit in the opposition for one term, we will cancel the problematic clauses in the equality-of-burden law, and then we’ll talk.”
Litzman speaks after his party HQ is in a slight panic over rumors that Lithuanian branch leader Shmuel Auerbach instructed his followers to vote for Yachad.
Auerbach later denied the rumor, but his associates say he himself has no intention of voting at all — not even for UTJ.
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