Union of right-wing parties

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Union of right-wing parties
Rafi Peretz
Party leader Rafi Peretz
founding February 21, 2019
Headquarters Airport City, Israel
Alignment Religious Zionism , religious nationalism , religious conservatism , national conservatism , social conservatism , settler interests
Colours) Blue green
Parliament seats
5/120
( 2019 )

The Union of Right Parties is an Israeli party alliance made up of the right-wing religious parties HaBajit haJehudi and Tkuma . The list was established in February 2019; Originally, it also belonged to the Otzma Jehudit party , which left the union of right-wing parties in June 2019. The chairman is Rafi Peretz . The electoral alliance represents the interests of the Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and strictly rejects a Palestinian state.

history

In the Knesset elections in 2013 and 2015, the two national religious parties HaBajit haJehudi and Tkuma under their chairmen Naftali Bennett and Uri Ariel agreed that both parties would stand as an electoral alliance with a common list. For the election in April 2019 , the new chairmen of the two parties, Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich , agreed to come back on the same list. However, polls in February 2019 showed that HaBajit haJehudi and Tkuma might have a hard time crossing the 3.25 percent hurdle because of the new right-wing pro-settler party HaJamin HeChadasch , led by former chairman HaBajit haJehudi Naftali Bennett To exceed. Therefore, the two parties formed an electoral alliance with the far-right Otzma Jehudit party . Prime Minister Netanyahu , in particular , urged the parties to band together to ensure that his potential coalition partners succeed in entering parliament.

In the April 2019 election, the right-wing union won 3.70% of the vote and 5 seats in the Knesset. HaJamin HeChadasch, however, did not manage to enter the Knesset. Bezalel Smotrich was then appointed Minister of Transport and Rafi Peretz as Minister of Education.

Otzma Jehudit left the covenant in June 2019. The reasons given were a lack of appreciation and failure to comply with a rotation agreement that said representatives of the other two parties should resign from the Knesset if they were given ministerial posts so that Otzma politician Itamar Ben-Gvir can move into the Knesset as a member of the parliament.

On July 29, 2019, the Union of Right-wing Parties and HaJamin HeChadasch agreed to run together in the parliamentary elections in September 2019 . Ajelet Schaked headed the joint electoral list Jamina .

In the upcoming Knesset election in March 2020 , the Union of right-wing parties will again run together with HaJamin HeChadasch. The top candidate is Naftali Bennett .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacob Magid: Jewish Home and National Union agree to reunite for Knesset run. Retrieved June 30, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Netanyahu paves path for Kahanists to enter Knesset - Israel Elections - Jerusalem Post. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ TOI staff: Smotrich, Peretz get nods for transportation, education ministries. Retrieved August 3, 2019 (American English).
  4. ^ Otzma Yehudit splits from United Right. Retrieved July 31, 2019 .
  5. ^ New Right, United Right reach final agreement on joint run. Retrieved July 31, 2019 .
  6. ^ Far-right Israeli parties unite ahead of election. January 16, 2020, accessed on January 17, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Yamina's list for the 23rd Knesset. Retrieved January 17, 2020 (English).