MK Elisha Maddan to set up tent outside Knesset calling for unity government

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Likud MK Elisha Maddan announced that he will set up a tent outside the Knesset building and sit in it calling for a broad national unity government. He said he would sit in the tent day and night, in cold and rain, to voice the views of those who want unity.

The step comes against the backdrop of coalition contacts and calls to form an emergency Zionist government. Maddan said he did not come to the Knesset to take part in division, and that the time has come for the House of Representatives to look like the people who elected him.

In a video he posted, Maddan explained: "In recent years we have seen what we are capable of when we are together. The time has come for the House of Representatives to look like that too". He said he came to the Knesset to help this nation stay together.