Category: Political, from Wikidata’s class “public election”
1999 Israeli general election
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Early general elections for both the Prime Minister and the Knesset were held in Israel on 17 May 1999 following a vote of no confidence in the government; the incumbent Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ran for re-election.
The elections were only the second time in Israeli history that the prime minister had been directly elected; the first such election in 1996 had been an extremely tight contest between Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud and Shimon Peres of Labor, with Netanyahu winning by just 29,000 votes.
Labor leader Ehud Barak, promising peace talks with the Palestinians and withdrawal from Lebanon by July 2000, was elected Prime Minister with 56% of the vote.
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