Likud Central C’tee Votes to Allow Direct Primaries
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“The Likud Central Committee voted Wednesday evening to relinquish its power to choose the party’s Knesset list, making Likud the first party in Israel to choose its list through direct primaries.”
“Likud Party chairman Binyamin Netanyahu urged the party’s 3,000 Central Committee members to approve the change in order to make the Likud a more democratic party. He stressed that the move would demonstrate to the country that the party now stands for accountability.”
“Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) Likud faction head Moshe Feiglin, whose Central Committee members all voted for the change, spoke about the significance of the decision … ‘If you have joined the Likud as we have been asking people to for the past five years, you can now not only vote for the head of the party, but for the entire Likud list,’ Feiglin said.”
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