Lapid attacks Netanyahu: "An attempt to abolish democracy"

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Yisrael Beiteinu leader Gideon Eisenkot attacked Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu over the assault on the election results and on the Central Elections Committee. According to Arutz Sheva, Eisenkot claimed that this is an attempt to intimidate the change. Eisenkot declared: "Those days are over."

Likud responded that Eisenkot is trying to prevent the examination of suspicions of foreign interference in the elections. According to Arutz Sheva, the party demanded that Avigdor Liberman transfer any information in his possession to the Elections Committee, the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and the head of the Shin Bet.

Yair Lapid attacked Netanyahu and claimed that he and his people are challenging the election results because they lost. According to Arutz Sheva, Lapid said: "In a democratic state, the winners form a government and the losers go to the opposition." According to Channel 14, Lapid called for allowing the winners to form a government, and the remarks were made even though the investigation into suspected foreign funding was opened on the instruction of Judge Noam Sohlberg, who described the suspicions as serious but ruled that they do not change the results.