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From the Liveblog of
Sunday, June 30, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Labor and Meretz merge into a united ‘liberal-democratic Zionist party’: The Democrats
Left-wing parties Labor and Meretz announce that they are merging under a new name — “The Democrats.”
In a joint statement the new left-wing party says that the merger is “not a ‘technical bloc,’ but rather a historical process that produces, finally, one large and united party, a liberal-democratic Zionist party that will be a political home for a large part of the Israeli population.”
Both parties have consistently failed to cross the election threshold in recent opinion polls and are therefore in danger of not making it into the next Knesset at all.
Meretz failed to enter the parliament in the last election and is seeking a return path.
