Autumn Shapir will not run for Knesset election: "The fate of the state is more important than any chair"

Following the decision on the connection between Labor-Bridge and Meretz, without the green movement, Shapir said in a statement that she would not run in the upcoming election campaign. "Proudly pays union price," Shapir said in a speech on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv

Autumn Shapir will not run for Knesset election: "The fate of the state is more important than any chair"

Green Party Speaker MK Shapiro announced on Wednesday her resignation from the election race. At a press conference on Rothschild Boulevard near Habima in Tel Aviv, Shapir said she "proudly pays the Union price" on the left. "The fate of the state is more important than any chair in the Knesset, even if this time is the one I sat in," she added. Shafir, who remained outside the left-wing union between Labor-Bridge and Meretz, has struggled in recent days to continue her path, and today announced her retirement.

"The victory of the sanity camp is borderline, and it may be decided by the sound of voice. So, and despite my desire to continue with all the struggles we have begun - I will not allow this victory to slip. Therefore, in this election campaign, I will not run for the Knesset - but I will continue to fight. About the state, ”she said in a statement.

Shafir, who joined the Democratic camp list in the previous election, attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech calling him the head of a criminal organization. "Today's battle is to keep the head of the bakery out of the prime minister's chair, and to clear the government stables from the terrible corruption it has inflicted on it and the incitement that has led so beautiful parts of Israeli society to be at odds with one another."

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Remained outside the union. Shafir on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, today

MK Shapiro Shapir, Chairman of the Green Party, Declaring End of Political Way, Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv, January 15, 2020 (Photo: Eitan Alhadz / TPS, official website)

The Knesset mentioned that it had pushed for more than a year of unification between the left parties, stating that it was proud that the union had been implemented. "This union is more important than I am," she said. She recently said about the union that "this connection must not become a concession." She said she worked "from morning till evening" for unification on the left, but "the great union is supposed to be a union of change and a hope of hope. A union that seems like a work list only distances the public from politics, while our most important mission today in a camp that believes in Israel - is to build the Trust again. To offer a new vision, to offer an exciting way. "

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Leave her outside. Peretz and Horowitz in a statement after the union on the left (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Amir Peretz and Nitzan Horowitz during the Labor Party-Bridge press conference at the press conference, TA 13 January 2019 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Shafir has struggled in recent days and contemplated an independent run by the Green Party after the two parties did not want to keep her seat as part of the Labor-Bridge-Meretz merger. Shapir started her job as a Labor MK in 2013 after leading the Rothschild Tent Protests in 2011. She ran for Labor against Amir Peretz last May and reached second place, but in the 22nd Knesset election, Ehud Barak and Meretz took office In the Democratic camp, her retirement statement signals that she intends to pursue political activity even though she will not run for this Knesset.

(First update: 3pm)