Israeli opposition leader Eisenkot says Netanyahu 'failed' to discredit election results

Israel’s Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his party "failed" to discredit Israeli election results. "The vile and malicious attempt to deny the election results, to undermine the will of the public, to smear an entire public, and to drag Israel into additional elections has failed," he said in a post on X. "Only someone who understands that they have lost would embark on such a brazen campaign of delegitimisation - even at the cost of further eroding public trust in the state's institutions." He described the recent election results "clear and unequivocal", and urged Israeli citizens to "ignore the background noise". "The people are sovereign, and they have spoken: the government of failure has no majority and it has lost," he added, referring to Netanyahu's government.