Yair Lapid on Thursday said that Benny Gantz's decision to join a unity government with Netanyahu was a "betrayal to voters and a theft of votes."
“We ran together because Benny Gantz looked me in the eye and said he would never sit in this bad government. I believed him. Together with us over a million Blue & White voters marched from street to street and from bridge to bridge… They feel betrayed today, and justifiably so. Their votes were stolen and given as a gift to Netanyahu."
“Benny Gantz decided today to break apart Blue & White and crawl into Netanyahu’s government. It’s a disappointing decision,” Lapid said.
“What’s being formed today isn’t a unity government or an emergency government. It’s another Netanyahu government. Benny Gantz surrendered without a fight and crawled into Netanyahu’s government. He joined the Haredi-extremist bloc.”