Against the background of the unflattering poll results for his party, Meretz chairman told Israel Today: "Calls on our supporters to return home, there is no substitute for our struggle against the occupation"
Chairman of Meretz Horowitz
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Meretz got up for a complex and charged morning for itself the day after the results of the poll yesterday (Tuesday) on News 12 (Mano Geva), according to which the party does not pass the blocking percentage.
In the two parallel polls she received 4 seats.
The Left Party may not be announcing a forced campaign, but in practice clearly identifies the current point in time as one that requires a wake-up call for its supporters and highlights the "disaster" that they claim will occur in the absence of a vote for the Social Democrats.
"This is a decisive stage and it is time to return to Meretz. Without Meretz, Netanyahu has a government," party chairman Nitzan Horowitz told Israel Today. "Without Meretz, he has 61 seats with Ben-Gvir and Smutrich.
Without Meretz, there will be no one to fight against them in the Knesset. "
Horowitz went on to address potential voters who, according to the polls, are parked in other parties in the center-left bloc.
"I appeal to all Meretz supporters and voters who are now in Labor, Yesh Atid and Blue and White, and call on them to return home. Left-wing voters have seen time and time again that there is no substitute for Meretz and its struggles against occupation, fascism and the creeping dictatorship in Israel." Added.
The chairman of the Meretz faction, MK Tamar Zandberg, chose to address the issue of the historical importance of the left-wing party that has not sat in government for 21 years.
"It is impossible to imagine a Knesset with Kahana's party and without Shulamit Aloni and Yossi Sarid's party. This is a party that has been fighting for 30 years for a world of values that no one else represents, and has always kept its promises. The latest polls are a wake-up call for the public that Meretz is important to." Stressed.
MK Yair Golan continued from exactly the same point. "This is a wake-up call for anyone who wants Israel to remain a democracy," he told "Israel Today." "It is either Kahanism and corruption from the house of Ben Gvir and Netanyahu or Meretz."
Meanwhile, the party will begin stimulating the base of supporters (eight more than 150,000 people according to the party) and its activists convey confidence that despite the borderline results in the polls - if they make an effort in the remaining three weeks, they will pass the blocking percentage: He will actually vote - Meretz is passing and in a big way. "
At the technical level, at this stage the party will address the undecided, who are mainly in the Labor Party, with messages that will sharpen the distinction between them and the party headed by MK Merav Michaeli and clarify why only Meretz represents them. That their members testify that they are not left-wing and have no problem sitting with ultra-Orthodox in the government.
These parties stole votes from their constituents, when they pledged not to sit in the Netanyahu government and during the test - they failed, and if that is not enough, even now there are defectors on their lists (referring to 'Labor'; dl) ".
In addition, Meretz will make a blitz on the voices of the Arab sector and mention that there are two Arab candidates on its list, Jida Rinawi Zoabi and Issawi Farage, in realistic places.
There will be an extensive outdoor campaign in the field, including activists - mainly Meretz youth - who will raid a thousand points across the country and convince that "only Meretz can be trusted."
