The Yesh Atid party congratulates Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman for not joining “the fire-sale coalition” of Prime Minister Netanyahu.
In a statement, the party says that “today, when a new Knesset begins working” should have been “a day full of hope and celebration, but it isn’t — not with these coalition agreements — because, from next week, Israel will be going backwards.
“I want to remind the prime minister and his ministers — you’re the public’s servants,” the statement quotes Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid as saying.
The statement criticizes Netanyahu for reneging on ideas he supported during the last Knesset, including reducing the number of ministers to 18, encouraging employment in the ultra-Orthodox sector and other bills: “It took the prime minister only one year to change his ideology…. He voted for those issues and now it all turns on its head. People say ‘it’s like that in politics.’ It’s not like that in politics; it’s only like that when one has no principles.”
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