A day after Labor Party Chairman Amir Peretz announced that he would vacate his seat in the upcoming elections, MK Merav Michaeli, who opposed the party’s entry into the Netanyahu government, spoke this morning (Thursday) with Guy Peleg and Nissim Mashaal on 103FM.
Minister Amir Peretz at Maariv’s Israel Food Security Conference
Labor Party, is there a pulse?
“Everyone is rediscovering the Labor Party, the one I have been insisting on for months when everyone insists on burying it. It is understandable that the Labor Party has no future when it is headed by Shmuli and Peretz, who betrayed the electorate.”
The public does not vote.
“It goes without saying that when headed by people who really raised the confidence of the electorate, turned their backs on all their commitments, acted in stark contrast to the ideology expected of them and promised to the electorate, then it is obvious that they are not trusted. And half a woman and a man who are looking for this leadership, reliable, that lives up to what it promises. “
Some? A million and a half?
“Citizens who have no one to vote for? Unequivocally. I’m talking about people who have no one to vote for, and it is the responsibility of Mitgata Labor to return to being the central center-left body that guarantees people Zionism.”
Will you run for office?
“I want there to be primaries where I can do that.”
There is no one to vote in the primaries.
“Did you read Amir Peretz’s retirement announcement? He says ‘I will bring an heir from outside’, he does not say primaries.”
Maybe a rat?
“It could be, Hodlai, Nissenkorn, rather they will run in the primaries, there are still 44,000 members. The party must return and represent the Declaration of Independence, a state for the Jewish people with equality, striving for security through political agreements.”
Why not Meretz? Looks like a classic home for you.
“I do not see what is not classic in my house. I have a house, the Labor Party.”
Which completely crashed.
“I am interested in returning the voters who gave the Labor Party five years ago together with the movement 24 seats, not so long ago.”
It is impossible to explain everything by the fact that the party was headed by people who betrayed the principles. This is a deeper question, has not the Labor Party ended its historic role?
“There is no alternative to the Labor Party. I agree that its deterioration does not begin in the last election. Too many leaders instead of serving the elected public, they have joined right-wing governments, served the right and the ideology of the right.”
How do you explain that? Buzi also negotiated with Netanyahu at the time. What is it about this movement that turns its back on its voters time and time again.
“Since 1993, when Benjamin Netanyahu was chairman of the Likud and started the campaign against Rabin and Oslo, he has been terrorizing an entire public. “This is incitement and violence that led to the assassination of a prime minister who headed the Labor Party. The importance of this matter cannot be overstated.”
How aware are you that all the leaders have crawled?
“I am the first to admit and say that in order to rebuild this political camp, one has to rebuild with people who will not do it. I am talking about rebuilding a political camp that regains its self-confidence in the righteousness of the way.”
Go to Meretz.
“I have a mission and things that I believe in and for which I am fighting and fighting. Meretz is an important party, but the Labor Party must return and fulfill its role in rebuilding the State of Israel.”