Yesh Atid-Telem chairman Yair Lapid railed against the new government agreed upon by his former Blue & White partner Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I apologize to everyone who I convinced over the past year to vote for Benny Gantz and Blue and White. I didn’t believe your votes would be stolen,” he said in a live press conference.
“There has not been such deceit since the establishment of the state. Instead of Israel before all else, [it’s] the seat before all else,” Lapid said, paraphrasing Gantz’s election slogan.
“No promise you were given will be honored. Not one,” he said. “In this government Miri Regev will choose the police chief. Netanyahu will choose the state prosecutor and the judges who will preside over his trial.”