Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday responded to MK Benny Gantz's decision to join a Likud-led government, claiming the move would be regretted in the future.
Gantz's decision led to the breakup of his party, Blue and White, into its constituent factions: Yesh Atid, Telem, and Israel Resilience.
"I'm not a partner in the excitement - not from the decision, and not from those who made the decisions," Olmert told 103 FM Radio. "In another week it could be that Gantz will support [MK Yuli] Edelstein's (Likud) re-election [as Knesset Speaker]. Does he really think that a party of five MKs can have fifteen ministers?"
Olmert added: "The government which will be formed is not a unity government and not a nationalist government."
Gantz, he said, "has no political future - his future is his past. [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu is not a magician, he's a con man."
"Gantz's decision will lead us to great mourning."