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Ynet news portal at the weekend ran a story on some of the fringe political parties that have persevered election after election (and there’ve been quite a few of late) in trying to win seats in the Knesset. We rearranged the title and focus of that article to better suit the interests of our Christian readers ahead of the March 23 vote.
Most of the media surveys only include the dozen or so parties expected to pass the electoral threshold and actually be represented in the 24th Knesset. But there are actually a whopping 39 parties running. And that doesn’t come close to the record 47(!) parties that ran in the April 2019 election.
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Yesh Atid, with MK Orna Barbivai at left, presents its candidates list for the March 23, 2021 election to the Central Elections Committee, in the Knesset, February 3, 2021 (GPO)
Registration opened Wednesday for parties to submit their lists of candidates in the upcoming Knesset elections, with several major parties unveiling their slates and several small parties quitting the race.
The slates can be handed to the Central Elections Committee until Thursday at midnight, meaning that parties have just one day left to finalize potential mergers, or to announce they aren’t running.
Any party that has submitted its slate cannot change it.