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Zehut members approve dropout from election race
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMembers of the nationalist libertarian Zehut party approve a deal inked with Likud to drop out of the election race in exchange for a future ministerial post and the liberalization of the medical marijuana market.
According to Channel 12, 73 percent of Zehut members voted in favor of the deal in a referendum.
Netanyahu has been putting intense pressure on several small right-wing factions to drop out of the election in September so that their votes are not “wasted” if they fail to clear the 3.25% threshold for entering the Knesset.
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