2009 Israeli legislative election

Rare card · No. 28419

Legislative elections were held in Israel on 10 February 2009 to elect the 120 members of the eighteenth Knesset. These elections became necessary due to the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as leader of the Kadima party, and the failure of his successor, Tzipi Livni, to form a coalition government. Had Olmert remained in office or had Livni formed a coalition government, the elections would have been scheduled for 2010 instead. Although the incumbent prime minister's party, Kadima, won the most seats in the parliament, the Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu was able to form a majority coalition government and become the new prime minister. This was the first election in Israeli history in which the Israeli Labor Party or its predecessors did not win the most or second-most seats.

Read on Wikipedia · Image משתמש:Yiftach T, CC BY 2.5