Democratic Union (Israel)
The Democratic Union (Hebrew: המחנה הדמוקרטי, romanized: HaMaḥaneh HaDemokrati, lit. 'The Democratic Camp') was a liberal-left-wing political alliance in Israel formed between Meretz, Israel Democratic Party, Labor defector Stav Shaffir, and the Green Movement that ran in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election. On 19 December 2019, Labor defector Stav Shaffir and her party, the Green Movement, announced a press conference in which she would leave the alliance to run independently in the 2020 Israeli legislative election. The Democratic Union initially announced on 7 January 2020 that it will run in the 2020 election, this time including Meretz and Democratic Choice.
Democratic Union המחנה הדמוקרטי | |
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| Leader | Nitzan Horowitz Stav Shaffir Yair Golan Ehud Barak |
| Founded | 25 July 2019 |
| Dissolved | 13 January 2020 |
| Succeeded by | Labor-Gesher-Meretz |
| Ideology | Social liberalism Green Zionism Progressivism Social democracy Democratic socialism Secularism Green politics Two-state solution |
| Political position | Centre-left to left-wing |
| Member parties | Meretz Democratic Choice Israel Democratic |
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| Slogan | No (to) Likud. That's for sure. |
| Most MKs | 5 (2019) |
| Election symbol | |
| מרצ | |
| Website | |
| www.dem.co.il | |
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On 13 January 2020, it was announced that a new Labor-Gesher-Meretz slate had been formed for the 2020 election, excluding Shaffir, but including Yair Golan in a reserved Meretz slot.