Livni wins Kadima primary by narrow margin

Livni wins Kadima primary by narrow margin

By Haaretz Staff and News Agencies

Despite the landslide victory attributed to Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in the exit polls by Israel's three major TV stations, Livni beat her main rival Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz in Wednesday's Kadima primary by only 500 votes, a difference of only two percent. Voter turnout in the primary stood at 55 percent. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday evening phoned Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and congratulated her on her victory in the party primary after TV exit polls indicated she had won by a landslide.
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Olmert wished Livni good luck and told her she would receive his full cooperation in passing on the role of leadership in the event she is capable of establishing a coalition. The two planned to meet later this week. Exit polls by Israel's three major TV stations put Livni on 47-49 percent of the vote in the election for the new Kadima leader, negating a second round of voting to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and making her the next likely premier.

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