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Polanski Vows to Carry on as Greens Leader After by-Election Defeat to Labour
Labour took 45% of the vote as the Greens won 33%, but Polanski said the party’s movement was bigger than one seat.
- Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali defeated Green Party Leader Zack Polanski in Thursday's Holborn and St. Pancras by-election, winning 45% of the vote to Polanski's 33% in the London seat vacated by former Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
- Earlier this month, Green Party members voted 1,022 to 813 to declare Zionism a form of racism and back a "single democratic Palestinian state," a resolution that divided the party and alarmed Jewish groups.
- Polanski faced criticism for skipping the vote but told the BBC on Friday he would have opposed the motion. "I signed up for that difficult job and I'm more than ready to continue," he said, refusing to resign.
- Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar barred Polanski from entering Israel, accusing the Green Party of legitimizing the country's destruction. Polanski also remains unable to enter Parliament, having failed to become the party's sixth MP.
- Polanski faces a leadership vote next year as the Green Party has lost ground in national polls. Labour leader and Prime Minister Andy Burnham has pulled ahead by courting left-wing voters with policy proposals.
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Zionism row to election loss: Will Polanski's big plans for U.K. Greens unravel?
The party leader promised to turn the Greens from a niche progressive movement into a serious electoral force. But a by-election defeat and divisions over the party's new Zionism policy pose a challenge to his leadership
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VINnewsGreen leader under pressure after UK poll defeat clouded by party’s anti-Zionist stance
LONDON (AP) — The leader of the fast-growing Green Party in England and Wales faced questions about his future on Friday after failing to win a parliamentary seat from the governing Labour Party. Zack Polanski is fighting a backlash over his party’s anti-Zionist stance and doubts about whether he can continue to be its leader...
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