Head of the opposition in Israel, centrist Yair Lapid, met this Wednesday with the leaders of two right-wing parties also in opposition, Avigdor Lieberman and Gideon Saar, to agree on a common strategy to overthrow the current government Benjamin Netanyahu.

“They agreed on action plan to replace the government for the future of the State of Israel,” the joint statement said.

Lapid led the opposition at the head of the “There is a Future” party and he has already managed to create an alternative government to Netanyahu in 2021, combining the forces of all tendencies contrary to the current prime minister, but this lasted only one year.

Avigdor Lieberman, who heads the secular far-right group Israel Our Home, and Gideon Saar, who heads the right-wing group New Hope, They were also part of this “government of change.”

Both were former members of Netanyahu’s Likud party. ministers in their previous governments and close allies of the current prime minister, but they left the right-wing formation – Lieberman in 1997 and Saar in 2020 – due to personal differences with him.

Lapid, Lieberman and Saar also addressed the leader of the center-right National Unity party. Benny Ganzwithdraw from the emergency executive created due to the war in the Gaza Strip and join them.

Former Minister of Defense Benny Gantz, who was part of a government coalition with Netanyahu in the past, He was also part of the “government of change” and until October 7 was in opposition along with Lapid, Lieberman and Saar.

However, after the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip He was the only one of the three who decided to join the emergency government. and is a member of the core War Cabinet along with Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

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Gantz, who has been leading the polls for several months, threatened Netanyahu to leave the unity government by June 8 unless he fulfills a number of demands, such as a post-war plan for the Gaza Strip, which calls for the creation of a Palestinian-controlled civilian administration.

(EFE)