"The union will bring Yesh Atid to 'drink' the mandates of the center-left parties, this is a bad political move." The Labor Party distributed a message sheet to Knesset members in which they request to repeat the main message that there is no chance of unification with the Meretz Party.
On the messages page there is also a comprehensive study conducted by the party on the possibility of unification with Meretz.
The document reads: "According to the findings of an in-depth study we received today, unification between Labor and Meretz results in a decrease in the total number of mandates in the bloc."
It is also written that: "The running of the two parties (Labor and Meretz) separately brings more mandates to both parties compared to running together. A union between Labor and Meretz strengthens Yesh Atid by two mandates, but at the same time reduces the center-left bloc."
According to them, "the unification causes an entire mandate for Meretz voters not to go out to vote. In addition, the unification causes a mandate to be transferred to the joint list."
The union endangers the bloc.
Michaeli, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
According to the study, the bloc of center-left parties drops to 59 mandates and brings the Netanyahu bloc to 61. In other words, this union is bad for the bloc.
The messages sent to the MKs are in the spirit of what they said: "Unification between the parties leads to the loss of mandates and puts the entire bloc in the 'danger zone', the responsible move is to run separately."
Only in this way can the number of mandates of the center-left bloc be maximized", in addition it is written that: "In the elections to the 23rd Knesset, Meretz and Labor ran together and received 7 mandates.
In these elections they ran separately and got 13. The past teaches us that this is a bad political move." MKs also emphasized on the message page that: "The Union will bring Yesh Atid to 'drink' the mandates of the center-left parties (Labor and Meretz) by tilting the campaign strategy to the left , something that will inevitably lead to the loss of mandates of central figures in the bloc."
may lose voters.
Zahva Galon, photo: Gideon Markovich
In the meantime, yesterday the two faction chairmen of the parties, Ram Shefa (Labor) and Michal Rosin (Mertz) signed a surplus agreement in principle.
Sources in the Labor Party told "Israel Hayom" that "the surplus agreement closes the door on the possibility of unification. The agreement allows each party to run alone and receive the votes that will come as part of the surplus agreement."
Ram Shefa and Michal Rosin.
Signing on excesses, photo: no credit
In Meretz they said: "We did not sign a surplus agreement with the Labor Party. We reached an agreement in principle to sign the surplus agreement after the closing of the lists if there will not be a joint run."
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