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In the April 2019 elections, the party won four seats. In July 2019, Meretz agreed to form an electoral union, called the Democratic Union, with Ehud Barak's Israel Democratic Party and breakaway Labor MK Stav Shaffir for the September elections, [30] a decision ratified on 29 July. [31] The alliance won five seats, three of them going to Meretz.
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]
Man's Rights in the Family Party; Magen Yisrael (Shield of Israel) Mahane Yehuda — Royalist Party of Israel; Meimad (held seats between 1999 and 2009 as part of the One Israel alliance) New Horizon; New Right; Or; Piratim — The Pirate Party of Israel; Rappeh — a political party protesting COVID restrictions. [9]
The twenty-fifth government of Israel was formed by Yitzhak Rabin of the Labor Party on 13 July 1992, [1] after the party's victory in the June elections. The coalition also contained the new Meretz party (an alliance of Ratz , Mapam , and Shinui ) and Shas , and held 62 of the 120 seats in the Knesset .
In December 2020, Yair Golan, who previously led the Israel Democratic Party, announced that he would join Meretz. [8] Meretz ran alone in the 2021 election, where it won six seats, [9] and subsequently participated the thirty-sixth government, the first time Meretz sat in a government since 2001. [10] [11]
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 vote was open to party members. Party membership increased by 12,000, to roughly 30,000, ahead of the vote. [ 1 ] Outgoing leader Galon wanted the election to use an open primary -style system in which any Israeli citizen could vote, regardless of party registration.
An election was held for the leadership of the Meretz party on 27 June 2019 at the party's conference. Nitzan Horowitz unseated incumbent leader Tamar Zandberg.. By winning the election, Horowitz became the first openly gay individual to ever lead a party in Israel's Knesset.