Meretz is falling apart: Minister of Environmental Protection Tamar Zandberg Announced this morning that it is taking a break from political life and will not run for the next Knesset. Zandberg joins Minister Issawi Farage, who announced last week that he would not run in the upcoming elections, and even party chairman Nitzan Horowitz, who announced that he would not run for the party leadership. Outside the next Knesset.
In a post on Facebook, Zandberg wrote that “After nine years in the Knesset and government, and almost 19 in the public and political world, my view is sober. Not without concern, I am full of faith and optimism about the future of Meretz, the left and the change bloc, But the realization permeated me that the fifth attempt would be without me. ” Zandberg further writes that “I gave this campaign my maximum. As a Member of Knesset, as party chairman, kosher, in opposition and in the coalition, I have always served the road and the public. I have enacted, led an agenda on a number of issues, I believe I have changed and influenced. The place for others and others who will continue it. “
In recent days, Zandberg has expressed in closed conversations fears about the upcoming campaignMarch She will be required to wage another battle for her survival. As you may recall, she was the one who did this as chairman in recent years before Horowitz, and now it also emerges from the lines that she writes about the feeling of fatigue and exhaustion from the Meretz election campaign and the difficult political situation in particular. Precisely the past year, an extraordinary year in which I was privileged to work full-time for the Israeli environment and serve one hundred percent the public interest, has sharpened for me the gap between this sublime doing and the politics involved, which seems increasingly cynical, divided and hopeless. At some point, the famous wheel that every politician aspires to stay on, feels like a turnaround instead of a race to nowhere. It’s my time to get off it. “
Zandberg also announced that she will complete her term as Minister of Environmental Protection and in the remaining months will devote the time to completing tasks. “I am proud of the revolution I led this year: for shaking the Ministry of Environmental Protection a struggle and its marginal place around the government table in favor of renewable energy; for reducing a single pride in dedicated public servants and environmentalists; Breakthrough for Arab society, which I am convinced will lead to a new era of justice and equality in the state of the environment; And educate him to require us to repair what we have destroyed. “