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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 4, 2021 0:59:11 GMT
Of all the things for a once dominant party to go into extinction over...
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 4, 2021 20:46:34 GMT
Former Head of Mossad and Labor MK, Danny Yatom, to found a party for retirees.
Yesh Atid and Telem are also splitting.
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Post by markgoodair on Jan 4, 2021 20:50:35 GMT
Former Head of Mossad and Labor MK, Danny Yatom, to found a party for retirees. Yesh Atid and Telem are also splitting. Israel I'm sure has had a pensioner party before that managed to win seats to the Knesset. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 4, 2021 20:53:58 GMT
Former Head of Mossad and Labor MK, Danny Yatom, to found a party for retirees. Yesh Atid and Telem are also splitting. Israel I'm sure has had a pensioner party before that managed to win seats to the Knesset. I reckon it is a smart move as he will appeal to old-style left-wing voters. |
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Post by jamie on Jan 4, 2021 21:37:23 GMT
Israel I'm sure has had a pensioner party before that managed to win seats to the Knesset. I reckon it is a smart move as he will appeal to old-style left-wing voters. But will he make the threshold or get a vote surplus agreement with a party that will? Otherwise that’s anti-Netanyahu votes down the drain. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 4, 2021 22:11:51 GMT
I reckon it is a smart move as he will appeal to old-style left-wing voters. But will he make the threshold or get a vote surplus agreement with a party that will? Otherwise that’s anti-Netanyahu votes down the drain. I reckon there will be moves afoot to join lists - he is close to Ehud Barak. |
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Post by Merseymike on Jan 4, 2021 22:15:07 GMT
But will he make the threshold or get a vote surplus agreement with a party that will? Otherwise that’s anti-Netanyahu votes down the drain. I reckon there will be moves afoot to join lists - he is close to Ehud Barak. I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case. Forming broad alignments are necessary given the electoral system though the instability of party structures since the fall of the Labor alignment, on the centre left, is all too obvious. They seem to change radically between each election. |
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Post by john07 on Jan 4, 2021 22:35:44 GMT
Former Head of Mossad and Labor MK, Danny Yatom, to found a party for retirees. Yesh Atid and Telem are also splitting. Israel I'm sure has had a pensioner party before that managed to win seats to the Knesset. Scotland also had a Pensioners Party MSP elected in 2003. John Swinburne managed to piss off many by calling for the return of the Tawse into Scottish Schools. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Jan 4, 2021 22:57:34 GMT
Former Head of Mossad and Labor MK, Danny Yatom, to found a party for retirees. Gil II: Electric Boogaloo |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 4, 2021 23:44:08 GMT
New Hope and Yamina have signed a surplus deal, as have Yesh Atid and Yisrael Beytenu. Not sure that Likud are going to get any deals this time.
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 5, 2021 0:16:36 GMT
Doubtless, Shas and UTJ will sign a deal, It would be sensible for an alignment of Meretz, Labour, Greens, Retirees to come together as a union and then do a deal with a Blue and White/Telem alignment. Tnufa will do a deal with The Israelis.
I suspect that Orly Levy-Abekasis (Gesher) will be on the Likud list,
The New Economic Party will disappear. Jewish Home will probably reintegrate with Yamina or Likud will pick them up.
Give it a shake....who knows?
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Post by finsobruce on Jan 5, 2021 8:26:49 GMT
Israel I'm sure has had a pensioner party before that managed to win seats to the Knesset. Scotland also had a Pensioners Party MSP elected in 2003. John Swinburne managed to piss off many by calling for the return of the Tawse into Scottish Schools. Sweden has a Senior Citizens interest party, which I thought was quite successful at one point. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 5, 2021 15:20:31 GMT
Rafi Peretz, Jewish Home leader and Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage, is retiring from politics.
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 6, 2021 20:35:55 GMT
National Union-Tkuma to split from Yamina.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 7, 2021 0:13:09 GMT
Scotland also had a Pensioners Party MSP elected in 2003. John Swinburne managed to piss off many by calling for the return of the Tawse into Scottish Schools. Sweden has a Senior Citizens interest party, which I thought was quite successful at one point. The Netherlands has 50Plus, whose former leader Henk Krol has now fallen out with two parties in 12 months. Germany had the bizarre "Die Grauen", who never got anywhere and were the fief of a rather odd woman named Trude Unruh, who had sat in the Bundestag for the SPD and then the FDP, before leaving them for GAL (precursor to the Greens) and then a small proto-AfD "Bürgerpartei". |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 8, 2021 20:00:05 GMT
Sweden has a Senior Citizens interest party, which I thought was quite successful at one point. The Netherlands has 50Plus, whose former leader Henk Krol has now fallen out with two parties in 12 months. Germany had the bizarre "Die Grauen", who never got anywhere and were the fief of a rather odd woman named Trude Unruh, who had sat in the Bundestag for the SPD and then the FDP, before leaving them for GAL (precursor to the Greens) and then a small proto-AfD "Bürgerpartei". And DeSuS in Slovenia and HSU in Croatia. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 12, 2021 0:05:09 GMT
The Religious Zionist Party has split from Yamina.
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Jan 26, 2021 17:40:18 GMT
Amir Peretz, leader of Labor until Sunday gone, has resigned from Labor to retain his cabinet position. There's always been a lot of shifting allegiances in Israeli politics, but Peretz's craven careerism is nauseating.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 26, 2021 17:56:37 GMT
Is he still running for President?
And just how many ex Labor leaders have resigned to keep their cabinet posts over the years?
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 28, 2021 19:31:42 GMT
Ra'am and Ta'al have split from the Joint List. No doubt, they will be back come the election.
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