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Meretz (Hebrew: מֶרֶצ, lit. 'Vigour', [7] Arabic: ميرتس) [8] was a left-wing political party in Israel. The party was formed in 1992 by the merger of Ratz, Mapam and Shinui, and was at its peak between 1992 and 1996 when it had 12 seats.
On 30 June, the two parties jointly announced that they had agreed to a merger. [8]According to a press release, the merger is "not a 'technical bloc.'"Under the merger agreement, there will be one Meretz representative in every four spots on the new party's electoral list, as well as on the party bodies, and there will also be representation for Meretz's municipal factions. [14]
Criticism of incumbent party leader Nitzan Horowitz's leadership included a failure to keep the party's Knesset members in line, which was blamed for playing a factor in the breakdown of the governing coalition. [12] After an early Knesset election was called, polls showed Meretz polling near (and often below) the electoral threshold. [13]
Unlike the previous two Meretz party leadership elections, [4] [5] [6] the 2012 election was not open to the party's general membership. Instead, its electorate was limited to delegates at the party's convention. 835 of the convention's 954 delegates ultimately participated in the election, making for a turnout of 87.53%.
The Gesher party, led by Orly Levy-Abekasis, who ran together with the Labor Party in the previous elections in the framework of Labor-Gesher, continued the expanded cooperation. The Democratic Union list, of which Meretz was a part in the previous elections, disintegrated, but Yair Golan of the Israel Democratic Party , which was part of the ...
The election was open to all members of the party. [1] If no candidate had secured an outright majority of the vote in the initial round, a runoff election would have been held. [2] On the day of the election, Cohen filed a complaint with the party's election committee alleging irregularities at some polling stations.
Per the rules of the party, if a second Knesset election is held during the term of the party's chairman, the party conference will choose a forum in which they will then hold another leadership election, as well as primaries to select its party list candidates. The election took place ahead of an upcoming legislative election in September. The ...
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