The Labor Party scored a substantial gain in this week’s elections held by the Federation of Civil Servants while Likud and its religious bloc coalition partners suffered a loss. Labor garnered 61.6 percent of the trade union’s vote, up from 52.2 percent in the last elections.
Likud dropped from 18.9 to 13.9 percent and the religious parties from 13.2 to 11.6 percent. The Independent Liberal Party also fell from 7.9 to 2.8 percent. The Shot faction scored almost two percent, a gain, but the Democratic Movement received less than one percent of the vote, below the minimum required for representation in the union’s bodies.
Only about 50 percent of the members eligible to vote cast ballots.
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