A new role for Palestinian citizens in Israel’s election

posted on: Mar 11, 2015

Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCIs) are primed to play a larger than usual role in Israel’s March 17 parliamentary election. The implications of their changing role could have a big impact on coalition formation as well, for reasons that may not be obvious. Until now, most attention, in Israel and internationally, has focused on the tight race between Israel’s two largest parties: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and Isaac Herzog’s Zionist Union. But PCIs offer a particularly useful window into the potential effects of the elevated threshold in new electoral rules, the structure of the electorate and potential changes in voter turnout.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com