Hours after Yesh Atid chief Yair Lapid announced to President Reuven Rivlin he had managed to form a government, 61 members of his so-called "bloc for change" submitted signatures Thursday morning to replace Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin.
The government-in-waiting seeks to replace Levin — a close confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — with Yesh Atid MK Mickey Levy.
In a document submitted to Knesset Secretary-General Yardena Meller-Horowitz, "bloc for change" parties requested that the vote to elect the 24th Knesset speaker be placed on the agenda for the next plenum, which will convene on Monday.