2.06.2009

Likud lead over Kadima narrows 4 days before Israeli elections

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party’s lead over Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Kadima narrowed to two seats in the latest polls, showing a neck-and- neck race four days before parliamentary elections.

Surveys of 1,000 Israelis published today in the Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot dailies show the elections will be increasingly close. The Haaretz poll, which had a margin of error of 3 percentage points, gave Netanyahu’s party 27 seats and Livni’s 25 in the 120-member Knesset. Yediot’s survey, with a margin of error of 2.6 points, shows Likud would get 25 and Kadima 23.

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