Yacimovich, Shaffir secure top spots on Labor's Knesset slate

Shelly Yacimovich during the Labor primary election, January 13, 2015. Photo by Tomer Appelbaum

Former Labor leader MK Shelly Yacimovich ranked first in the party primary, according to the results of the vote held on Tuesday. 

Yacimovich will be placed third on Labor's Knesset ticket, after party leader Isaac Herzog and Hatnuah's Tzipi Livni. Knesset members Stav Shaffir, Itzik Shmuli and Omer Bar-Lev follow Yacimovich on the ticket in places 4, 5 and 6 respectively. 

 MK Merav Michaeli is ninth on Labor's list, which includes assurances made to Tzipi Livni's Hatnuah party, as part of the unity deal between the two parties. MK Eitan Cabel, who was expected by many to be placed first, is 10th on the list. Labor is expected to formally present its Knesset slate at a gala campaign event Wednesday evening. 

Then it will get down to the real work: trying to attract voters from the moderate right, including those who formerly supported Likud, in an effort to substantially increase its Knesset representation. The turnout on Tuesday was 58.9 percent, higher than the 57.7 percent of the registered voters who voted in the primaries two years ago. 

The election committee said voting went very smoothly. 

  The preliminary list is as follows:

1. Isaac Herzog

2. Reserved for Hatnuah

3. Shelly Yacimovich

4. Stav Shaffir

5. Itzik Shmuli

6. Omer Bar-Lev

7. Hilik Bar (reserved for party secretary general)

8. Reserved for Hatnuah

9. Merav Michaeli

10. Eitan Cabel

11. Reserved for Herzog appointee

12. Erel Margalit

13. Miki Rosenthal

14. Revital Swid

15. Danny Attar

16. Reserved for Hatnuah

17. Zohir Bahalul

18. Eitan Broshi

19. Michal Biran

20. Nachman Shai

21. Reserved for Hatnuah

22. Ayelet Nachmias Verbin

23. Yossi Yona

24. Reserved for Hatnuah

25. Reserved for Hatnuah

Labor leader Isaac Herzog at a polling station in Modi'in, January 13, 2015. Photo by Gil Cohen-Magen

Stav Shaffir during the Labor primary election, January 13, 2015. Photo by Tomer Appelbaum

Merav Michaeli during the Labor primary election, January 13, 2015. Photo by Tomer Appelbaum

Eitan Cabel during the Labor primary election, January 13, 2015. Photo by Tomer Appelbaum

Fonte: http://www.haaretz.com/