Yesh Atid MK Ram Ben Barak says he believes he will replace party leader Yair Lapid in the faction’s upcoming inaugural primaries.
“Yesh Atid is undergoing a process of democratization. I believe that I will replace Lapid as leader of the party,” he says in a video published on the Israel Hayom website.
Speaking to recent polls which have predicted that Yesh Atid would drop to 14 seats from its current 24 if elections were held today, Ben Barak says, “We’re in a difficult period for the party, but the decision not to join the coalition was correct; we are not [National Unity chair] Benny Gantz and [New Hope leader] Gideon Sa’ar. We are the opposition and we call on them to leave this terrible coalition.”
Yesh Atid, founded by Lapid in 2012, has never held a primary election. Days before the October 7 Hamas onslaught, it scheduled a leadership contest for December, but later pushed it off amid the ensuing war against the terror group.
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