Minister Yariv Levin, who is leading Likud Party negotiations, has dismissed the presence of Blue and White Party Chairman Benny Gantz and senior Blue and White member Yair Lapid at a meeting of the parties' negotiating teams as "a public relations exercise designed to hide the fact that Blue and White is constantly refusing to accept the president's outline and working to form a minority government with the Joint List," of predominantly Arab parties.
Levin added, "I offered to Gantz and Lapid my service of translating from Arabic, added of their meeting today with [Joint List Chairman] Ayman Odeh, since there Blue and White is hold real negotiations while holdng fake negotiations with us, which is a only a show for the media."