2007 Israeli Labor Party leadership election explained

Candidate1:Ehud Barak
Before Election:Amir Peretz
Leader
Percentage2:47.69%
Popular Vote2:32,117
Candidate2:Ami Ayalon
Percentage1:51.29%
Popular Vote1:34,542
Image1:Ehud Barak Face (3x4a).jpg
Country:Israel
Election Date:28 May 2007 (first round)
12 June 2007 (second round)
Next Year:2011
Next Election:2011 Israeli Labor Party leadership election
Previous Year:2005
Previous Election:2005 Israeli Labor Party leadership election
Ongoing:no
Party1:Israeli Labor Party
Party2:Israeli Labor Party
Type:presidential
Flag Image:Logo haAwoda.svg
After Election:Ehud Barak
Turnout:65.13% (first round)
64.5% (second round)

A leadership election was held by the Israeli Labor Party on 12 June 2007, to elect the party's new leader, due to internal dissatisfaction with the incumbent chairman Amir Peretz. The winner was Ehud Barak.[1]

History

Five candidates ran in the election: Ehud Barak attempted to return to politics,[2] this time after the move of Shimon Peres to Kadima,[3] while Ami Ayalon announced his ambition to become prime minister.

Ofir Pines-Paz had been chairman of the coalition in the Fifteenth Knesset.[4] He was the party's secretary-general in 2001-2003.[5] [6] In the 2006 election he was third in the Labor-Meimad list, after Peretz and Isaac Herzog.[7] When Yisrael Beiteinu joined the coalition and Avigdor Lieberman was appointed minister, Pines-Paz resigned from the government.[8] His resignation took effect on 1 November 2006. Danny Yatom ran in the election but came last in the first round of voting.

The election consisted of two rounds, the first of which took place on 28 May 2007. Ehud Barak won a slim victory in the party primary, beating Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet domestic security service. Both candidates polled well ahead of Peretz, but neither gained the requisite 40-percent margin of victory for an outright win.[9] Peretz, then the Incumbent leader of the party, came third and did not advance to the second round. he subsequently endorsed Ayalon,[10] while Pines-Paz endorsed Barak.[11] Barak won the second round with 51.3% of the vote to Ayalon's 47.7%, with 1% of voters abstaining.

Opinion polls

Second round

Results

In the first round, Ayalon won a plurality of votes in the Kibbutzim, while Peretz won a plurality of Arab Voters.[14]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Israeli Labor Party . 2022-04-19 . . en.
  2. News: ברק: אתמודד על ראשות העבודה; שגיתי לא מעט, אך בידי הבשלות לכהן כשר ביטחון . TheMarker . 2022-06-08.
  3. Web site: CNN.com - Peres quits Labor Party, backs Sharon - Nov 30, 2005 . 2022-05-08 . edition.cnn.com.
  4. Web site: אופיר פינס-פז . Ofir Pines-Paz . 2022-06-08 . main.knesset.gov.il.
  5. News: פינס סיים תפקידו כמזכ"ל העבודה . he . הארץ . 2022-06-08.
  6. Web site: For Israel's Battered Labor Party, Signs of Hope After Four-year Decline . 2022-06-08 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . en-US.
  7. Web site: רשימות המועמדים לכנסת ה-17 . live . 2022-04-19 . . he. https://web.archive.org/web/20190819202816/https://www.idi.org.il/media/6041/%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%95%D7%93%D7%94-%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%93-17.pdf . 2019-08-19 .
  8. News: שומפלבי . אטילה . 2006-10-30 . פינס: אני מתפטר, אתמודד על ראשות המפלגה . he . Ynet . 2022-04-19.
  9. Web site: Israeli Labor Party Leader Ousted . 2022-04-19 . www.globalsecurity.org.
  10. News: ברשקובסקי . ענת . 2007-06-05 . אילון: אצלנו העבודה לא תבקש סליחה . he . Ynet . 2022-04-19.
  11. News: שומפלבי . אטילה . 2007-06-06 . פינס: ברק מציב רף מוסרי - אני איתו . he . Ynet . 2022-04-19.
  12. Web site: 2007-05-17 . סקר "גלובס": ברק מוביל על איילון בסיבוב הראשון . live . 2022-04-19 . Globes . he. https://web.archive.org/web/20220419135628/https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000213070 . 2022-04-19 .
  13. News: ynet . 2007-06-06 . סקר: אילון מוביל על ברק בפער קטן . he . Ynet . 2022-04-19.
  14. Web site: 2007-05-29 . ברק ניצח - יתמודד מול אילון בסיבוב שני - וואלה! חדשות . 2022-06-08 . וואלה! . he.