Besides the Yisrael Beiteinu MK(s?) whom we won’t be seeing in the next Knesset after today’s revelations, a few more politicians will be leaving us for good from Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua party.
Amram Mitzna (Hatnua) announced today that he informed Tzipi Livni that he won’t be running in the next elections. Though unlike his compatriot Elazar Stern who announced that he was leaving the Hatnua party earlier this week, Mitzna thinks the merger with Labor was a good move.
Meir Sheetrit (Hatnua) is expected to announce his retirement from politics tomorrow.
Sheetrit is a controversial politician who has worked very hard over the last decade to deploy various Big Brother platforms onto the citizenship, in particular government controlled DNA databases for newborns and biometric databases for citizens.
Yesterday, HaTnua MK David Tzur announced his retirement from politics.
Besides Tzipi Livni, that only leaves Amir Peretz as MKs in the HaTnua party, and he’s been known to publicly get confused as to which party he’s currently serving in, but that might be OK now that he’s returning to Labor.
Two weeks ago, Yitzchak Herzog, chairman of the Labor party, agreed to not only merge Labor together with Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua party, but if they managed to form a coalition with themselves at the top of the heap, Herzog agreed to share the premiership with Livni, and rotate the position of Prime Minister between the two of them.
Herzog thought he was buying a pig in the poke, but he apparently only got a cat in the bag.