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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Sunday, July 10, 2022
Meretz leadership contender Yair Golan calls for wide left-wing electoral union
Deputy Economy and Industry Minister Yair Golan announces that he plans to challenge Nitzan Horowitz for the leadership of the Meretz party in the upcoming primaries, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, July 6, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
After news broke of a deal between New Hope and Blue and White to run on one joint electoral slate, Meretz MK Yair Golan — who is running to head his party — calls for a similar union on the left.
“Has the season of unions began?” Golan tweets. “We should read the writing on the wall: A large and united Israeli-Zionist left-wing camp.”
Golan has said that he favors Meretz joining with the Labor party, but current Labor chief Merav Michaeli has indicated that she is opposed.
