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]
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.[10] Peretz, then the Incumbent leader of the party, came third and did not advance to the second round.[9] he subsequently endorsed Ayalon,[11] while Pines-Paz endorsed Barak.[12] Barak won the second round with 51.3% of the vote to Ayalon's 47.7%, with 1% of voters abstaining.[13]
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