Race for new Israeli PM underway

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By Stan Goodenough
August 01, 2008

Israelis Friday were being pelted with propaganda pushing the nation into early-election-fever with poll results indicating which trends would help which candidates replace recently-resigned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The four top names in circulation are Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz of the currently ruling Kadima (Disengagement) Party, former Prime Minister and center-right Likud Party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defense Minister and leftist Labor Party leader Ehud Barak.

Ynetnews reported that the majority of Israelis want to see the government dissolved and a date set for new general elections. But while such a decision has yet to be made, the Kadima Party is set to hold primaries for a new chairman - and thus its candidate for the premiership - in September.

Polls commissioned by the extreme left wing Ha'aretz newspaper and the most widely-read daily Yediot Ahronot indicated that should diplomacy-advicate Livni beat security-specialist Mofaz to their party's chair, Kadima would be much more likely to beat the Likud Party in a general election.

Should Mofaz win the primaries, "Bibi" Netanyahu is seen as the prospective victor at the polls.

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