Responding to reports that, as part of their coalition agreement, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett are proposing to change the law that demands the dissolution of a government in the event that a budget is not passed, MK Ofir Sofer (Likud) has criticized the two potential partners, calling them hypocritical.
"Over the last two years, Lapid and Bennett have been explaining to everyone that 'the country needs a different form of government that will work for the citizens of Israel,' he stated. "They accused Netanyahu of not passing a budget for personal reasons, and brought this as proof that change was needed.
"Now, however - wonder of wonders - at the moment of truth, this bond of brothers is interested in changing a Basic Law that demands that a government that fails to pass a budget must fall. What happened to the needs of Israeli citizens? It looks very much like these two brothers are just using them to reach the Prime Minister's chair, and then they just discard them. How utterly hypocritical."