The Israeli Knesset canceled the system for the direct election of the prime minister. Beginning with the next general elections, currently scheduled for 2003, Israel will revert to the old system in which a voter casts only one ballot for a political party. The head of the winning party assembles a coalition and becomes prime minister.
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