Former prime minister Ehud Barak, a Democratic Union candidate for Knesset, has criticized Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz for saying he would not rule out joining the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu if he receives a rotation of being prime minister.
Barak said "These are not slips of the tongue. This is the truth that "slipped" from Gantz (and earlier from Orly [Levi-Abekasis] and Amir [Peretz of the Labor-Gesher alliance]): their two parties are ready to sit in a government with Netanyahu. This is the deep left-center disease. The lack of determination to rally together to achieve a revolution. Only we in the Democratic Union promise that your voice will remain in the union. Netanyahu must be brought down. without fear. not saved."