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Poll of Kadima members: Livni beats Mofaz
About a month before Kadima primary elections and contrary to expectations within the party, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is in front of the other three candidates. An opinion poll aired by Channel 10 yesterday that surveyed 1,200 registered Kadima members found that Livni has 35% of the votes while Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz has only 25%. The other candidates—Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit and Domestic Security Minister Avi Dichter—received only 4% of the votes.
Asked who they would vote for if Sheetrit and Dichter were out of the race, 35% of respondents picked Livni while only 33% picked the Transportation Minister. Despite the poll, today Mofaz is expected to receive the endorsement of Minister Ruhama Avraham and Minister Jacob Edery, after having been endorsed yesterday by Construction and Housing Minister Zeev Boim and MK Ronit Tirosh.
Some Kadima sources who had recently spoken with Avraham and Edery felt that the two would join the Mofaz camp. Avraham is scheduled to hold a press conference today to announce her support. The new Minister of Immigrant Absorption Eli Aflalo told Kadima officials that he urged an internal poll in Kadima to gauge votes.
The head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, MK Tzachi Hanegbi, will also hold a meeting for party operatives in the home of Levy Sheetrit in Petah Tikva, one of Mofaz’s prime supporters. Most of the operatives meeting with Hanegbi are Mofaz supporters, but it is still not clear who Hanegbi will support. It is thought that even if he decides to support Livni, he will not force his decision on his own partisans in the party.
August 12, 2008
By: Site editors and Mazal Mualem
Written By: AD2
Date Posted: 9/1/2008
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