The chairman was severely criticized by the party after his statement about running for president • "He is an opportunist and a problematic figure - Peretz is only doing what is good for him"
Minister of Economy Amir Peretz
The announcement by the Minister of Economy and Chairman of the Labor Party, Amir Peretz, that he intends to run for president this coming June created a great storm among his party members yesterday.
His many critics mentioned that Peretz, who was elected to head the Labor Party in July 2019, then promised in the victory speech that he aspires to lead the party for a long time.
"He lied at the conference and lied in speeches. He promised to rehabilitate the party, promised that he would not go to government with Netanyahu and also that he would not go to the presidency," one of the party members said yesterday.
"This move by Peretz to the presidency is just another lie in his series of lies."
Although the Labor Party currently holds two portfolios in the government, in practice the party itself is shattered and in all the polls conducted in recent months it receives close to zero percent support and does not even come close to the blocking percentage.
"Amir Peretz is an opportunist and a very problematic political figure," a former senior member of the party told Israel Today.
"The man has left the party twice and acts as if all the responsibility for her situation rests solely with others, and that is after he brought Orly Levy and even together they have not achieved anything. He is preparing to run for president for several years, holding a chair in the Knesset Doing only what is good for Amir Peretz. "
The veteran party is convinced that he has broken away from their trust and now intends to leave as he leaves them in the worst situation in the party's history.
MK Merav Michaeli explained that "just as Amir Peretz traded in the Labor Party, Ben-Gurion's and Rabin's party - only for a job in the Netanyahu government, so he is now trading in it for his presidential campaign. I wish him success, but the role of the Labor Party is To revive the hopes of millions of Israeli women and men, not to revive his political career. "
Ivy Benjamin, Labor Party's delegate, said: "Amir Peretz should stick a mustache and be thrown in the dustbin of history. Whoever betrayed his constituents sold the Labor Party to the replacement rag and crowned Netanyahu - can not be chairman of a house committee." Labor summed up in two words the mood of the party: "Just let it go."
