Blue and White Chairman MK Benny Gantz met today with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv in order to discuss the current political possibilities in the hopes of avoiding a third election. The negotiating teams for both parties will remain in contact and a second meeting is expected in the near future.

Earlier on Sunday the negotiating teams met at Kfar Hamaccabiah, at the end of which a spokesperson for the Blue and White party stated: “The meeting was held in good spirits, and during the meeting Blue and White’s negotiation teams sought to coordinate further meetings in the coming days to discuss options to form a government and coalition guidelines based on the understanding that the mandate is currently held by Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz and he is the designated prime minister. The Likud has continued to insist throughout the meeting that it represents the ‘immunity bloc’ of 55 and is not prepared for any compromise on the issue.”

A spokesperson for the Likud stated: “The meeting of the negotiation teams is now over. Minister Yariv Levin reiterated that the team represents all 55 members of the right-wing bloc… Blue and White representatives refused once again to accept the framework of the president of the state, which is the only path for the formation of a broad national unity government.”

One of the Chief Negotiators for the Likud, MK Yariv Levin said “The Blue and White representatives refused to commit that they will not establish this dangerous minority government.”

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Minister Levin expressed hope that at the next meetings that the approach of the Blue and White party would change. He further hoped that the delusional option of forming a minority government with the support of the Arab parties would be abandoned and that the president’s framework would be accepted and discussions would be practical and quick.

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(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)