The Democratic coalition describes itself as a “fighting and determined” opposition and promises to remove the current government, “the most failed in the country”, through a “structural and functional” alternative.
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The Israeli Labor Party (social democrat) and the progressive political force Meretz (left) sealed this Monday a coalition agreement that aims to remove Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, which they consider “the most failed in the country’s history“.
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The two sides held their first meeting after confirming the agreement the day before. The coalition is called “Democrats.”
Labor Party Chairman Yair Golan welcomed Meretz and praised the decision to join forces to strengthen a “liberal-democratic” alternative.
The most urgent task is to replace the most failed government in the history of this country and restore hope in Israel (…). We are one struggle and determined opposition”Only such an opposition can be an alternative leadership,” Golan was quoted as saying by The Times of Israel.
Golan said that the “democratic” political alliance is capable of guaranteeing a change of government through an alternative “functional and structural”the current executive led by Netanyahu, the most right-wing in Israel’s history, which includes ultra-Orthodox and far-right parties.
For Golan, the executive has benefited from the classic disputes between left and right, which is why he defended the end of the use of these ideologically divisive terminologies.
“Left- and right-wing ideas are comfortable for Netanyahu, but they have no relation to Israel’s current reality,” Golan argued, who nevertheless made a distinction between those who defend a country as a home “for all Jews equally” and those who, on the contrary, “see the state as messianic-theocratic.”
The Labor Party enjoyed a golden age between the late 1960s and 2000, with five consecutive presidencies, and managed to dominate national politics in the 1990s, with the governments of Yitzhak Rabin (1992-1995), Shimon Peres (1995-1996) and Ehud Barak (1999-2001).
Since then, however, He did not hold any relevant positions in the Israeli government and in the last legislative elections, it obtained less than 3.7% of the votes (four deputies), facing a tendency to disappear, which led it to the alliance with Meretz.
Meretz is a left-wing party founded in the 1990s that advocates a two-state solution (Israel and Palestine) and pacifism.
Historically, it has been a residual party in the Knesset (Israeli parliament), where it achieved its best result in 1992, winning 12 of the 120 parliamentary seats. It also served in Labor governments at that time.
Source: Observadora
