The New Right Party has congratulated Member of Knesset Bezalel Smotrich on his election as Chairman of the National Union Party, calling him "a man of ideology and action" who says what he feels."
A statement by the party continued, "Now, everyone will, in his own way, increase the right-wing bloc for the future of the state and for the the wholeness of our country. We thank Minister Uri Ariel for his long years of activity, which will be inscribed in the history of Zionism."