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The 2018 Municipal Elections in Jerusalem: A Tale of Fragmentation and Polarization
Contemporary Review of the Middle East Pub Date : 2020-01-08 , DOI: 10.1177/2347798919889762
Csaba Nikolenyi 1
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Abstract This article analyzes the 2018 local elections in Jerusalem, the contested capital of the State of Israel. These elections were unique in terms of their level of competitiveness and fragmentation as well as producing a highly divided local government in the wake of the incumbent mayor’s, Nir Barkat’s, decision to leave the local political scene and enter national politics. While his party has no representation in city council, the new mayor of Jerusalem, Moshe Lion, built a broadly based new coalition that includes all parties in the council except for Hitorerut, the party that won the most seats and whose mayoral candidate, Ofer Berkovitch, was the runner-up to Lion. With the exception of the ultra-orthodox parties, national political parties that sought to interfere with the local electoral process to promote their candidates and lists by and large failed. Therefore, the governance of the city of Jerusalem once again fell under the control of the ultra-orthodox majority. Furthermore, even though the Arab population of East Jerusalem largely continued its traditional abstention from the electoral process, there was some evidence to suggest that a slight shift was taking place in that community in favor of participating in the institutional process of municipal government and democracy.

中文翻译:

2018 年耶路撒冷市政选举:分裂和两极分化的故事

摘要 本文分析了 2018 年以色列国首都耶路撒冷的地方选举。在现任市长尼尔·巴尔卡特决定离开当地政治舞台并进入国家政治之后,这些选举在竞争力和分散程度方面是独一无二的,并且产生了高度分裂的地方政府。虽然他的政党在市议会中没有代表,但耶路撒冷的新市长摩西·莱恩建立了一个基础广泛的新联盟,除希托勒鲁特党外,希托勒鲁特党赢得了最多席位,其市长候选人奥弗·伯科维奇 (Ofer Berkovitch) 除外。 ,是狮子的亚军。除了极端正统派,试图干预地方选举进程以提升其候选人和名单的国家政党基本上都失败了。因此,耶路撒冷城的治理再次落入了极端正统派的控制之下。此外,尽管东耶路撒冷的阿拉伯人在很大程度上继续其传统上不参加选举进程,但有一些证据表明,该社区正在发生轻微的转变,有利于参与市政府和民主的制度进程。
更新日期:2020-01-08
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