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That allowed Meretz to maintain its strength in terms of the number of voters – some 170,000 – compared with the last election. Under the circumstances, and against all odds, that is a success." [28] Tamar Zandberg became the leader of Meretz in 2018. In February 2019, Meretz held its first-ever open primary contest.
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.
The Democratic Union (Hebrew: המחנה הדמוקרטי, romanized: HaMaḥaneh HaDemokrati, lit. 'The Democratic Camp') was a liberal-left-wing political alliance in Israel formed between Meretz, Israel Democratic Party, Labor defector Stav Shaffir, [3] and the Green Movement [4] that ran in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election. [5]
She was also ranked third on Aguda's ranking of LGBT rights advocates in the Knesset, [4] behind only fellow Meretz MKs Nitzan Horowitz and Tamar Zandberg. [3] She was re-elected in the 2015 Knesset elections after being placed fourth on the party's list, [ 5 ] and in the April 2019 elections in third place.
Zandberg won the election for the leadership of Meretz on 22 March 2018 with 71% of votes cast. [16] She was re-elected to the Knesset in the April 2019 elections as the lead candidate on the Meretz list. [17] During the run-up to the September elections, she lost the party's leadership election to Nitzan Horowitz. [18]
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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]
In June 2019, Horowitz successfully challenged incumbent Tamar Zandberg for the leadership of Meretz, which made Meretz the first Israeli party to elect an openly gay person as its leader. Horowitz led the party during the September 2019 Israeli legislative election. [20] [21] In 2021, he became Minister of Health in Naftali Bennett's cabinet. [22]