Politicians, with the generous help of commentators and broadcasters, are trying to turn the potential voter into a strategist who operates a machine that calculates expediency and interests, only to have him not vote for someone he believes in.
The major parties are calling on voters of the minor parties not to vote for a party whose chances of passing are low, and on the other hand, they are promising all the best to the leaders of the minor parties, so that their voters will abandon them. The minor parties are calling on voters of the major parties to vote for them in order to strengthen the major parties, but are not willing to declare who they will support in order to keep their voters with them.
And above all, the dictatorship of the electoral threshold. The whole idea of the electoral threshold is not appropriate for Israel's political climate, where there are so many ethnicities and sectors, different beliefs, and a distribution of thinking along the entire scale.
At the end of the day indeed The votes are divided into two or three large blocs, but in the meantime, the leaders of the major parties are trying to raise the threshold more and more in order to prevent the unique expression of small groups that think differently and act in favor of different interests.
All of this is to prevent a person who believes in a certain party from voting for it, because according to the strategists and self-fulfilling poll prophets, it will not pass the threshold, which in turn also brings voters who believe in only part of that party's path to vote for it, in order not to lose votes to the bloc itself.
What is the democratic logic in the fact that a group of 100,000 people or more should not be able to express their opinions? The threshold must be lowered to the minimum required. In municipal elections, for example, it stands at about 0.75 percent, and its only expression on the ground is that a party that has not reached the required total cannot implement a surplus agreement that they signed. In the previous elections, about 7-8 seats did not pass the threshold, meaning that significant percentages of groups in the nation are not given a voice because of this unfair law.
This anti-democratic action, which according to its initiators is intended to maintain government stability, will only bring about the opposite, as happened with the Arab Party, and with Eli Yishai and Marzel. Several parties unite together, and then a party with ten seats will be composed of two or three factions, each belonging to a different group, and what will become of the government?
Every voter should choose the person they believe in the most, even if according to the polls only a few thousand people will vote for their party. Without strategic calculations about coalition and opposition, and what is good for the bloc and what is bad for a competing party.
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