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Israel
Shinui (Change)
Founded in 1977 by Amnon Rubenstein, a law professor at Tel Aviv
University and a columnist for Ha'aretz, Shinui represented
a large faction in the Democratic Movement for Change DMC. The
DMC won fifteen seats and played a major role in toppling the
Labor Party in the 1977 Knesset elections. Within less than three
years, however, the DMC broke up over the issue of continued participation
in the Likud government. During the next decade Shinui served
as an ally of Labor and was a leading advocate for constitutional
and electoral reform and greater flexibility on the Palestinian
problem. In the November 1988 elections, Shinui's Knesset representation
declined from three to two seats.
Data as of December 1988
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