Israeli politician Tzipi Livni . (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
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Former foreign minister Tzipi Livni’s career in politics is over and she will not run in the April 9 election, Livni told her associates on Monday morning, ahead of an afternoon press conference.
Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay unceremoniously kicked Livni out of the Zionist Union alliance on live television on January 1. Since then, her Hatnua party has failed to attract a following.
No recent polls have predicted the party crossing the 3.25% electoral threshold. Polls broadcast on Channel 12 and KAN Sunday night predicted 1.1% and 0.5%, respectively, for the party.
“All our options are open, including dropping out if no significant mergers of lists are made this week,” Hatnua faction chairman Yoel Hasson told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. “If there are no mergers, we won’t throw votes from out political bloc in the garbage.”
Neither Labor nor Yesh Atid, nor former IDF chief Benny Gantz’s Israel Resilience Party have expressed interest in having Livni on their lists. There has been no significant progress toward forming a joint list of Israeli Resilience and Yesh Atid ahead of Thursday’s deadline for lists to be submitted to the Central Elections Committee.
Since entering the Knesset in 1999, Livni has run with Likud, Kadima, Hatnua and the Zionist Union. She has served as foreign minister, justice minister, regional cooperation minister, construction and housing minister and immigrant absorption minister.
As foreign minister, she led negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
Her campaign over the past several weeks has accused of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of endangering Israeli democracy.
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