Labor secretary-general Eran Hermoni criticized Michaeli’s statement, saying that “Labor is not a branch of Meretz” and “must return to its rightful place in the Center-Left.”
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz at his Meretz party faction meeting, December 13, 2021.
(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
The leaders of Israel’s Meretz and Labor parties expressed interest in uniting together in Israel’s next election, Israeli media reported.
Meretz leader and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz called on the two parties to join together to form a united Social Democratic Party, while Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli said that “In the next election, everything will be done to rebuild the democratic parties.”
The two parties have run together in the past, notably in the March 2020 elections when Labor, Meretz and Gesher ran together.