The public is losing confidence in Labor and Likud, the principal partners in the unity coalition government, according to a poll published Friday. It indicated that both would lose votes if elections were held now. The beneficiaries would be parties on the left and right of the political spectrum.
According to the poll by the Hanoch Smith Research Institute, published in Davar, 38 percent of the electorate would vote for Labor and 27 percent for Likud. This represents a 4 percent loss for the Labor Party and 1 percent decline for Likud since a similar poll was conducted in September 1986.
Support for the leftist Citizens Rights Movement (CRM) rose from 4.5 percent last September to 6 percent now. The rightwing Tehiya Party went from 6 to 8 percent approval by the respondents.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
