An election was held for the leadership of the Meretz party on 27 June 2019 at the party's conference. Nitzan Horowitz unseated incumbent leader Tamar Zandberg.
By winning the election, Horowitz became the first openly gay individual to ever lead a party in Israel's Kensset.[1]
Background[]
Per the rules of the party, if a second Knesset election is held during the term of the party's chairman, the party conference will choose a forum in which they will then hold another leadership election, as well as primaries to select its party list candidates.[2] This leadership was held due to the fact were to be September, after the Knesset formed by the April 2019 elections failed to produce a government. It was decided at the conference to hold these elections as a part of the conference.[2]
Unlike in the last leadership election the party had held, in 2019, the vote was only open to the roughly 1,000 members of the party conference.[3]
