Former Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres called on the Knesset to repeal before the next elections a law calling for the direct election of the prime minister. Advocates for repeal maintain that the fragile coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a result of the double ballot, one for premier and one for Knesset, instituted in 1996.
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