While the major parties are numerous in the Knesset, it is precisely in the local elections that they manage to cooperate.
In Bat Yam, Mayor Zvika Brot, running this time on an independent list, managed to win widespread support from most of the Zionist parties in the Knesset.
It is about the support of right and left, secular and religious, alongside veterans and parties of immigrants.
Thus, for example, both Likud and Yesh Atid announced that they would support Brot in running for mayor.
On their side, Shas also signed a support agreement with Brot almost a year ago, as did Benny Gantz's Blue-White representatives and Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu. Recently, the Labor Party also joined, after withdrawing its support from Meretz's representative on the city council, and transferring its support to Brot It
should be noted that some of the parties added their support to the mayor following the connections made by Brot in the city. This is mainly an agreement with Eli Yariv, replacing Brot who is running on behalf of a new hope in a joint list with Yesh Atid. While they are supporting him for the council, Yariv expressed his support for Brot for the presidency The city on the yellow note.
Zvika Brot, Mayor of Bat Yam/official website, photo: private
"The intention is to establish a broad coalition, just as we did in the current term in Bat Yam," they say there, "there are many more common issues that we agree on, than disputes that we do not agree on. The basis for cooperation will first of all be cleanliness and transparency, values of liberality along with maintaining The tradition. Brut knows how to bridge sectors and this creates broad unity in the city, and above all the ability to live together without wars and with mutual respect between all sectors."
Another issue that all the parties agreed on is the continuation of work with professional teams at the administrative level, and without political appointments, as Brot also led in the term that will end this week.
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