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| By israelinsider staff and partners March 5, 2007 |
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Defense Minister and Labor party leader Amir Peretz would lose in elections for Labor party leadership if primary elections were held today, surveys published Monday by Israel's dailies, Ma'ariv, Yediot Aharonot, and Haaretz show.
The three newspapers bought a list of the 103,000 Labor party members from Labor headquarters and conducted the polls among all the members.
The Ynet poll revealed that MK Ami Ayalon is the leading candidate, with 28 percent of the 500 Labor Central Committee members polled choosing him. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak trails slightly behind Ayalon with 26 percent.
Only 19 percent of the respondents chose Peretz.
MK Ophir Pines-Paz was ranked fourth by those polled, and Danny Yatom fifth, with 17 percent and 6 percent support, respectively.
Ma'ariv's poll had different results. According to the poll, Barak is the favorite for Labor party leadership, and Ayalon is in second place, just four percent behind Barak. Paz-Pines placed third and Amir Peretz fourth.
Haaretz's poll also placed Barak as the favorite candidate, with a greater percentage of respondents choosing him over Ayalon.
The Ynet poll also found that if the first elections were inconclusive, Ayalon would beat Barak in the second round with 51 percent of votes. Peretz would lose in a second election against either Ayalon or Barak.
According to Peretz, the Labor party has around 25,000 new members. On Sunday, the party said they were confident that Peretz's position would greatly improve in polls that include the new members, The Jerusalem Post reported.
However, the polls published on Monday were based on the new list of Labor members and therefore contradict this claim. |
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