The chairman of Religious Zionism is expected to comment on contacts for the formation of a government, ahead of the round of consultations that will begin with the president tomorrow. • In a tweet posted on Twitter, Smutrich attacked Bennett: On the demand that they sit "with supporters of terrorism"
The chairman of the Religious Zionist Party, MK Bezalel Smutrich, is making a statement to the media at this time, after his party held a faction meeting in the Knesset tonight (Sunday).
Statement by MK Smutrich // Photo: Knesset Channel
Smutrich's statement comes after officials in his party expressed to Israel Today their anger over the pressure being put on them to join the government in support of the PM party. "If he had announced that he was fully with the right, and most of the pressure had shifted to Saar, he would have had to explain why the right would lose power and why they would go to the fifth election. As long as Bennett flirts with Lapid, Saar has hope."
Officials went on to attack Bennett, saying "come to us with claims that we are not willing to be supported by terrorist supporters? Let them come with complaints to Bennett, who does not go with his natural place and what his voters wanted - with the right."
Earlier in the day, Smutrich tweeted on his Twitter account, in which he implicitly attacked Bennett: "The hubris distortion of democracy that some irresponsible politicians (like Yotam) are promoting here to the cheers of a hypocritical media that wants to oust the right from power is destructive and dangerous. Religious has values and a way that no chair, not even the Prime Minister's chair, exists.
In this we are probably different from all the other parties. "
The round of Rivlin's consultations with all the representatives of the factions elected to the Knesset will begin tomorrow.
The president, who wants to prevent a fifth election and expedite the process of imposing the government train job as much as possible, will hold the entire round of consultations in one day.
President Rivlin is well aware of the ongoing political entanglement, and the line that will guide him is to try to simplify the situation and clearly understand from all the faction representatives who will come to his residence who they support, to get an unequivocal picture that will lead him to make a decision accordingly.
