New Hope leader Gideon Saar said Sunday ahead of the start of premier nomination talks, that his party "will not join or support a government led by [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu."
"I work to the best of my abilities to ensure that a government of change will be formed in the state of Israel to replace Netanyahu," he said to his supporters.
Saar called upon Likud members, saying that "you who for years did nothing, you who for years let him [Netanyahu] do as he pleases, go today and do the right thing, that can save a movement that was once so prestigious. Eliminate Bibism before it eliminates Likud."