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Labor’s Peretz joins forces with Orly Levy-Abekasis, shuns Meretz
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 25, 2019 08:27pm |
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| Author | Michael Bachner and TOI Staff |
| News Date | Friday, July 19, 2019 02:55:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Labor Party leader Amir Peretz on Thursday announced a merger with Orly Levy-Abekasis’s Gesher party, which failed to enter the Knesset in the April elections, seemingly marking a rightward shift for his party and possibly ruling out joining forces with the left-wing Meretz party.
Presenting the move as a boost to Labor’s socially minded policies, Peretz in a joint press conference in Tel Aviv described Levy-Abekasis as “a pioneering woman, with a broad worldview of social justice … of the state’s responsibility to the fate of the elderly, the handicapped, young couples” and others.
Levy-Abekasis, a former Knesset member with the right-wing Yisrael Beytenu, split off to form her own party, Gesher, earlier this year, but failed to make it into the Knesset in April.
Though she largely focuses on social issues, the daughter of former Likud foreign minister David Levy has remained largely identified with the right, and the merger was largely seen as a move by Labor to push for more support from the political center rather than from Meretz, which is further to the left. |
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