Yair Golan calls on opposition leaders to coordinate efforts against government

Addressing reporters during his party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, Yair Golan, the chairman of the The Democrats, a merger of Labor and Meretz, calls on leaders of the opposition to come together for “immediate” coordinated activity on a variety of fronts.

“This morning I sent a personal letter to each of the leaders of the opposition. I detailed in my letter the increasing necessity of coordinated and joint actions,” Golan says.

Golan lists five “burning issues”: the return of the hostages and the establishment of a Knesset committee to oversee ceasefire negotiations; obtaining an updated report on the IDF’s ability to face the “all-encompassing regional conflict to which Netanyahu is leading” the country; presenting an alternative budget to that being advanced by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich; the establishment of a “shadow government” in the British manner; and working to push for a state commission of inquiry into October 7.

This is the second such letter Golan has sent in recent weeks calling for coordinated opposition action. In his previous missive, The Democrats chief called for a meeting of opposition party chairmen to discuss ways to topple the current government.

Asked about the letter during his Yesh Atid party’s faction meeting, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said that “I welcome the initiative and call for collaboration with all opposition factions. We are working on this, in ways that are known and in ways that are less known. This is the the right approach and I welcome it.”