Transportation Minister Miri Regev (Likud) spoke on Saturday to Channel 12's "Meet the Press" program, defending her party's MK Tally Gotliv following her decision not to retract her candidacy to be a representative of the Judicial Selection Committee.
"It is not fair to dot his, there's a feeling that you need to take someone as the scapegoat, to punch him and de-legitimize him," she said. "Tally Gotliv is an excellent MK. She is following her path, but she is simply still young and does not understand what coalition discipline means and that it is a team game."
Regev added, "We understand that in the President's Residence, nothing is moving forward, these are u-turn talks which are simply treading water and our job in the coalition is to pass the reform. We exposed the faces of [MK Benny] Gantz and [MK Yair] Lapid, who are working for [former Prime Minister] Ehud Barak. How can it be that a representative was chosen for the opposition and they say, 'We're pausing the talks'? From our perspective, this means that they do not really want the talks, but rather to bring down the Right and bring down [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu."
"The opposition understands that the protest is not continuing but rather waning," Regev explained. "They understand that you cannot work on everything all of the time. If you ask me, faith has been lost in the [talks in] the President's Residence. We need to continue to pass the reform."
Regev also added that three things need to change: "reasonability, attorney generals as a position of faith, and the changes to the composition of the Judges Committee."