Ayelet Shaked: 'We will form a right-wing government with a right-wing prime minister'
'We will not sit under Lapid as prime minister,' Yamina's number 2 vows in i24NEWS/Israel Hayom interview
Ayelet Shaked, Israel's former Justice Minister and second-in-command with the right-wing Yamina party, said on Tuesday that Yamina was "the best guarantee we won't have a fifth election."
In an interview for i24NEWS and Israel Hayom, the lawmaker touted Yamina's position between the two key blocs on the Israeli political stage -- those supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and those against him.
Yamina, unlike the rival right-wing New Hope led by Gideon Sa'ar, has not rejected the prospect of sitting in a government with Netanyahu. "Israel is in an endless loop of elections," and Yamina can break it, Shaked said.
"We will form a right-wing government with a right-wing prime minister," she pledged, saying that this was the party's ultimate plan -- and the time to figure out the details will come when the outcome of the March 23 vote is clear.
"We will not sit under Lapid as prime minister," she added, referring to Yesh Atid chief and opposition leader Yair Lapid.
The Yamina second-in-command also ripped into Netanyahu over freezing the push to apply Israeli sovereignty to West Bank areas in summer 2020, saying this was a "historical moment" lost an that Yamina still supported the plan.
Commenting on the Supreme Court ruling recognizing Reform and Conservative conversions to Judaism for the Law of Return, she came out in favor of the proposal by former minister Moshe Nissim, which would have set up a state-led Orthodox body, thus breaking the ultra-Orthodox control over the matter.