01.02.2012                      08.Schwat. 5772

Parteipolitik:

Likud primaries see low voter turnout, with only 14% by mid-day

Netanyahu is expected to easily beat his challenger, extreme rightist Feiglin, but nevertheless will deliver a surprise speech in the evening to encourage eligible voters.

Turnout for the Likud party's primary elections was unusually low on Tuesday. By mid-afternoon, only 14 percent of eligible voters had cast their ballot to elect a new party leader and central committee.
Approximately 4,500 people had voted by early afternoon. Many of the polling stations themselves had opened later than 10 A.M., as planned, due to the tardiness of the human resources personnel overseeing the voting….