http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/583900.html
Census: Arabs form largest constituency in Labor Party
By Mazal Mualem
For the first time in the history of the Labor Party, its Arab members
have become the largest constituency.
It emerged last night that the Arab constituency made up approximately 22
percent of Labor Party members, according to party membership poll data. The
rate of kibbutz members, traditionally a prominent Labor constituency, dropped
from 16 to 10 percent.
The census results may have a crucial influence on the party's primaries,
set to be held on June 28.
Senior Labor sources said yesterday that the dramatic increase in the
Arab constituency benefits chairmanship candidate Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, who
alone drew 14,000 Arab members to participate in the census.
Candidates Matan Vilnai and former prime minister Ehud Barak are likely
to suffer the most from the census results. The two are also likely to suffer
from the diminishing constituency of kibbutz members, their major support group.
According to the new membership census, some 21,500 Arabs signed up as
party members, compared with some 14,600 members in 2002 who formed
approximately 13 percent of the total number of members. This marks a sharp
rise of 47 percent in the number of Arab party members.
Contrary to the Arab sector, the constituency of the kibbutz sector
diminished significantly. This was probably the result of massive efforts by
Ben-Eliezer and Amir Peretz, a chairmanship candidate and the Histadrut chief,
to sign up Arab members in the census.
So far, only 9,972 members signed up in the kibbutz sector, compared with
17,629 in 2002, when they formed approximately 16 percent of the total number
of party members.
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