National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir claimed in a statement to the media that "according to verified and confirmed information I received in recent days, the Prime Minister's Office officially pledged to a number of European Union countries that Ben-Gvir will not be in the next government." According to him, "an explicit message was conveyed to those countries, either to foreign ministers or higher levels, that the prime minister does not intend to include Jewish Power in the next government."