Peres wins party backing for Israel presidency bid
JERUSALEM: Elder statesman Shimon Peres won the backing of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his Kadima party on Monday for a bid to become Israel’s next president.
Parliament will elect the country’s president on June 13 and political commentators are predicting an open race, with Peres vying for the office along with candidates from Israel’s left and right wings.
“I spoke to Vice Premier Shimon Peres and told him I would support his candidacy for president,” Olmert said at a meeting of Kadima legislators.
An Israel Radio poll showed 64 percent of Israelis wanted Peres to become president. Eighteen percent supported Collette Avital of the Labour Party and seven percent preferred Reuven Rivlin of the Likud party. reuters
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