Chairman Yoel Hasson of the Hatenua' Party's Knesset faction has responded to the election of Member of Knesset Bezalel Smotrich as chairman of the National Union Party by saying, "Now the choice is clearer than ever, the Smotrich government or a Zionist and democratic government in which all citizens are equal before the law, a government that sanctifies creeping annexation or a government that works for a diplomatic agreement."