Olmert's Kadima fears early elections

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Source: Ha'aretz
March 14, 2007

Israel's ruling Kadima Party met in emergency session on Wednesday to discuss mounting fears that early elections may be coming as a result of the government's failures in last summer's Lebanon war.

Following the war against Hizb'allah, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert established the Winograd Commission to probe the nation's preparedness for and the government execution of the conflict.

At the time, Olmert believed that the boundaries he set for the commission would spare him and other senior officials any personal blame for Israel's failure to decisively defeat Hizb'allah.

But earlier this week, the panel of judges conducting the probe decided that Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and former IDF chief Dan Halutz will be named in their interim findings to be published next month.

Many within Kadima fear Olmert will be forced to resign, and that opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu will take advantage of the situation to bring about the downfall of the increasingly unpopular government.

If early elections are held, polls indicate that Netanyahu's Likud will regain control of the government, and that Kadima will be reduced to only the fourth largest Knesset faction.

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