Aryeh Deri: 'Lapid won't let Bennett or Sa'ar be prime minister - not even for a month'

• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Published date: 11 March 2021
• Date: 11 March 2021

"Bennett will sit with us, and afterwards Sa'ar will too, and his party will join. There are no ideological differences between us. It's inconceivable that two parties which belong to the right-wing camp, to the nationalist public, will torpedo a right-wing government," he said.

Regarding the possibility that MK Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) will form a government with Sa'ar and Bennett, Deri said: "There isn't a percentage in the world in which Lapid will allow Sa'ar or Bennett to be prime minister - not even for a month."

"He will head the large party, he will be two or more times larger than them, and both of them together won't have his number [of seats]. He will hold elections before allowing them [to be prime minister]. For sure."

He added that "there is a not insignificant chance that Shas will end up with more Knesset seats than Bennett and Sa'ar."

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