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Israel's ruling party selects election candidates
By ARON HELLER,Associated Press Writer AP - 51 minutes ago
JERUSALEM - Israel's ruling Kadima party has selected its slate of candidates for upcoming national elections, with Thursday's results indicating hardline and moderate members split the slots with a slight advantage going to its hardline wing.
Parliament Speaker Dalia Itzik came in first in the primaries. The former member of the leftist Labor party will follow Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz on the Kadima party list for the Feb. 10 national elections.
Livni is the party leader and Mofaz was guaranteed the second spot on the list for coming in second in separate elections for party leader.
The primary vote was the final one to be conducted among major Israeli political parties. Around 80,000 party members were eligible to vote for 85 candidates vying for a place on the list.
February's national elections are coming 18 months ahead of schedule. They were set in motion in September when Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced he would resign to battle corruption charges. Livni was selected to succeed him
A Maagar Mohot survey, published Wednesday, indicated that a Livni-led Kadima was closing the gap with Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline Likud party.
The poll showed Likud garnering 29 seats in the 120-seat parliament, up from its current 12, followed by Kadima with 25. Kadima currently has 29 seats.
The poll forecast the once-dominant Labor, headed by Defense Minister Ehud Barak, winning just 10 seats and becoming just the fifth largest party in parliament. The poll surveyed 506 people and had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.
Livni, who has been Israel's chief peace negotiator with the Palestinians over the past year, says Israel must find a settlement to all outstanding issues, including borders, Jerusalem and the refugees.
Netanyahu wants to keep large parts of the West Bank and rejects the return of any refugees or division of Jerusalem. Instead, he proposes an economic peace, which Palestinian leaders have rejected.
Kadima was founded by then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2005, after he bolted the hardline Likud to create a centrist alternative to it and Labor. Olmert took over a few months later, after Sharon suffered a massive stroke and was left incapacitated.
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