The former prime minister predicts that the internal division and the clashes with the far-right parties will precipitate the Executive
7 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid predicted this Friday that the new Israeli government will not end its term and that new elections will be held in 2024, all due to internal divisions and the “extremist” associates of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Asked during an interview on the Walla news portal about the date of the next elections, the former Israeli prime minister has predicted that they will be held in 2024, a year and a half after the last elections, which took place in November 2022.
“Maybe even less. The ones who will bring it down (the government) are them, each other. Look at them. If it’s broken and it gets up broken, then it’s broken,” Lapid asserted.
In this sense, he has assured that “Netanyahu’s absolute weakness” will help bring the Executive to an end sooner than expected.
“He is not used to it and he does not know how to be weak, but he is weak. Weak because around him there are people much younger than him and already much more ambitious than him (…) and even within his party there are the first cracks”, The prime minister of Israel has remarked until two months ago.
“Now he is playing the political game with the most extreme elements of Israeli society. It will not end well,” he said. “The most worrying thing is that Netanyahu knows it, he knows that he is dangerous,” he added, arguing that the Israeli president’s only motivation for staying in power was an ongoing trial against him.
Meanwhile, he has warned the Israeli government that beyond the ‘fake news’, “there is something called reality”, listing different problems: “There are the Palestinians, there are the Americans, there is the economy, there are endless problems real people who if left unaddressed, will annoy”.
Lapid has been optimistic regarding a future return to the post of prime minister, defending his decision not to adopt “the tactics of the right”, as he has related to the aforementioned outlet.
“I am an honest man, I am at the head of a decent party that is the second largest party in Israel and will be the largest party in Israel in the next elections, and I refuse to be distorted according to their criteria,” Lapid said.
He has also defended his decision to rule out a joint government with Netanyahu, even if it meant preventing the far right from coming to power, which he has repeatedly described as a “clear and present danger to Israeli democracy.”
“If we did, it would really mean the end of Israeli democracy, because we would be admitting that the anti-democratic forces won with such a ‘knock out’ that the whole world had to put themselves under their cloak,” added the former prime minister.
