Gantz: Netanyahu decided to go to election; PM: "He doesn't move a millimeter"

A blue-and-white chairman said in a Facebook post about his meeting with the prime minister earlier this week, saying that Netanyahu "has come to blow up the business" and considered it part of a campaign. Unfortunately we are falling for the elections no one wants. "

Gantz: Netanyahu decided to go to election; PM: "He doesn't move a millimeter"

Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz said on Friday that "Netanyahu seems to have decided to go for election." In a Facebook post, Gantz said of his meeting with the PM earlier this week, saying: "While I came to an open hearted meeting to advance the remainder The remaining time for a government for the people of Israel, Netanyahu saw this meeting as part of an election campaign. ”Netanyahu, for his part, accused Gantz of" not moving a nanometer "in their meeting.

Gantz said he received an invitation from Netanyahu a few days ago to meet. "Of course I agreed to meet even though it was clear to me that the chances of a significant breakthrough for unity were low," he said. "In the last few years I have accumulated a lot of hours with Netanyahu. In the room, with four eyes, we have always had mutual respect and respect. So, too, in the negotiations and other conversations that we have had in recent months. But this time Netanyahu came to blow up the business. Know him well. "

Gantz said Netanyahu offered nothing new in their meeting to prevent elections. "He would not give up the immunity, the block, and certainly would not give up his place as a first in the rotation. Nevertheless, as always, the conversation was respectful and everyone went his own way and consultations. Unity can launch, ”he added.

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"Netanyahu has come to blow the business." Gantz, this week (Photo: Elad Malka)

Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz at the opening of the Blue and White faction meeting in Knesset December 2, 2019 (Photo: Elad Malka, official website)

According to him, "While I make every stone achieve unity, Netanyahu becomes every stone to advance elections. Netanyahu did not win in April, lost in September and if we drag us into elections - we will win him in March 2020."

In response to Netanyahu's comments last night, a white and white chairman noted that "if anyone had any doubts, last night at a correspondence briefing he began talking about two years as prime minister and not half a year as he promised." This, after Netanyahu explained his demand to be first in rotation, said Because he is not interested in only six months - according to the Likud's latest proposal. At a briefing to reporters accompanying him on his visit to Portugal, Netanyahu said: "I don't want six months, I want two years. To be the first is government continuity, the thing that is required, because of my unique relationship with the President of the United States. To realize the opportunity, I now have to be prime minister because you will know what a child is today. "

The Likud issued a statement last night stating that the prime minister is behind the proposal passed by the negotiating team, which will give up a two-year continuous term as usual, and will initially serve in the first six months. The additional year and a half of his term will be completed after the year and a half of Gantz's term. This is to prevent unnecessary elections and to establish a broad unity government.

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"Gantz doesn't move no millimeter, nanometer." Netanyahu (Photo: Reuters)

PM Benjamin Netanyahu during Prime Minister's Office Meeting, Jerusalem, December 1, 2019 (Photo: Reuters)

Speaking to Gantz today, Netanyahu told of his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ireland's Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Portugal, saying: "I wish I could report to you that we have just made progress in political action to avoid these unnecessary elections."

Netanyahu added that "Benny Gantz does not move a millimeter, nanometer. So, unfortunately, we are degrading into unnecessary choices that neither of us wants, but if they are forced upon us we will win, and we will win big."

Yesterday, the prime minister said he plans to continue "to make a supreme effort, despite the opposition of blue and white to try to reach agreement and prevent these elections. It depends on two people - Benny Gantz if Yair Lapid gets over and if Avigdor Lieberman gets over himself."

Knesset Attorney General Il Yinon said earlier that if a third election were held, they would hold it on March 3 because of the Purim holiday on the 10th of that month. During a panel at a public law conference in Haifa, he expressed concern about the political crisis in Israel, saying that "Israel is in a deep political-constitutional crisis that, like us, did not doubt whether we see the way out."

(Update first: 15:32)