There continue to be mixed messages regarding the Jerusalem mayoral race, for recently, Degel’s top man in the capital, Deputy Mayor Yitzchak Pindrus announced the party was not planning to run its own candidate in the mayoral race.

However, there are still messages emanating from Bnei Brak that the party’s national leaders are toying with finding the suitable candidate, using some of the school data to support the decision to the voting public. Degel’s leaders reveal that there are far more children in the chareidi first grades in Yerushalayim than there are chassidic children, seemingly the justification for running with its own candidate, and competing against Agudas Yisrael’s candidate, Deputy Mayor Yossi Deutsch.

With elections closing in, it will soon be determined if Degel runs its own candidate, thereby splitting the chareidi vote, signaling nothing has been learned from the previous elections, in which the division in the camp cleared the way for the election of Nir Barkat.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)