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It was a reform party advocating a written constitution, civil rights, flexibility in negotiations with Palestinians, a free economy with progressive taxation, improved public behavior of politicians, and law and order.
In 1992, it joined with two other left-wing Zionist parties (Mapam and CRM) to form the Meretz/Democratic Israel coalition that won 12 Knesset seats and joined Rabin's Labor-led coalition. Prior to the May 1999 Knesset election, Shinui broke away from Meretz, and sought to redefine itself as a centrist party.
Shinui became a member of the Liberal International in 1986.
Further afield, the Israeli political landscape changed in the 1980s and 1990s, again affecting LI membership: the progressive liberal party, Shinui, joined LI at the 1986 Hamburg Congress;...
The Liberal International is thinking of expelling the Israel Liberal Party and admitting another Israeli party, Shinui, in its place. This is due less to the sorry bickering within the Israeli party than to the Liberals' alliance with the right-wing Herut party in the Likud bloc, and its almost total acceptance of Herut's hawkish policies, which are frequently criticized by Liberal parties in other western countries. Shinui is a small dovish party which belongs to the national unity government; it is allied with the Labor Alignment and is critical of the Likud. Shinui has a strong record on human rights and is opposed to what it perceives as religious coercion. On economic issues it is right wing. It favors compulsory arbitration of labor disputes in key industries and services and is opposed to restrictive practices by trade unions. By and large, Shinui is seen by the Liberal International as more faithful to traditional liberal values. The chairman of the Shinui party secretariat, Gideon Erhardt, says that when his party applied for membership of the International, only the Israel Liberal Party opposed the application. He says Liberal parties in most western countries were favorably inclined to Shinui. The Liberal Party delegate accused Shinui of harming the country's image in the international arena.
Campaigning on an anti-clerical, anti-corruption
Campaigning on an anti-clerical, anti-corruption
