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| By israelinsider staff May 2, 2007 |
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A poll conducted by Haaretz-Dialog a day after the release of the Winograd report revealed that about 40 percent of the respondents are hoping Israel will hold new elections. Professor Camil Fuchs of Tel Aviv University's statistics department ran the poll.
According to a Yedioth Ahronoth poll conducted by the Dahaf Institute, 51 percent think new elections should be held, while 23 percent would like the leadership to change without elections.
The Haaretz poll found that between 10 and 17 percent of Israelis believe the current government should remain in office, but that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should be replaced by Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud), Vice Premier Shimon Peres, or Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
Only nine percent of the Haaretz respondents and 10 percent of the Ynetnews respondents support the current government.
As far as public opinion on the Prime Minister, the Winograd report has not had a great impact on the public's views. Sixty-eight percent want Olmert to resign, a number which closely matches earlier polls that asked the same question. The Ynetnews poll had similar results, with 65 percent saying Olmert should resign.
Almost a quarter of those polled (23 percent) by Haaretz believe Olmert should stay in his post in order to fix his mistakes. The Ynetnews poll found that 27 percent think Olmert should be given a chance to correct his mistakes.
In Haaretz's regular bimonthly poll about how many Knesset each party should receive if elections were held now, Likud is in the lead with 30 seats. The Labor party follows with 21 seats.
Similarly, Benjamin Netanyahu is seen as the most suitable replacement for Prime Minister Olmert. On a scale of 1 to 10, Netanyahu leads with 5.27. Tzipi Livni follows in second place at 5.03, and Peres was rated 4.91 out of 10.
Netanyahu was also chosen as the person respondents would most like to have as prime minister with over a quarter (26 percent) choosing him, followed by Peres with 11 percent, Livni at 10 percent, and Barak and Olmert with only 6 percent each.
The Ynetnews poll also found Netanyahu is the favorite candidate to replace Olmert, with 29 percent. However, twice the percentage of those polled chose Livni (20 percent), 10 percent chose Ehud Barak. Olmert, as in the Haaretz poll, only received 6 percent. |
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