MK Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the Yesh Atid party, has cancelled a coalition negotiation session scheduled for Wednesday between his party's team and the Likud. The cancellation follows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address this evening at the Knesset swearing-in ceremony, in which he sharply attacked the Arab parties and called on other factions not to form a government with them.
"Following Yesh Atid's approach to all Knesset factions to conduct genuine negotiations based on the four principles Yesh Atid set for forming a government, a negotiation meeting was scheduled for tomorrow between Yesh Atid's team with Eisenkot and the Likud team," the party said in a statement. "Against the backdrop of the outgoing prime minister's divisive speech and his degradation of the Knesset swearing-in ceremony and what remains of the state's institutions under Netanyahu's rule, Yesh Atid chairman Gadi Eisenkot has now instructed to cancel the negotiation meeting planned for tomorrow."
