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dirty trick", and polling showed Rabin to be the nation's most popular politician. Additionally, many of Peres' longtime backers in the party had begun shifting their support to Rabin. In July 1990, the Labor Party's 120 member
Leadership Bureau voted to recommend that the party hold an immediate leadership election. However, one week later, on 22 July 1990, the 1,400 member Labor Party Central Committee voted 54 to 46% against holding an immediate leadership contest. This set the part up to not hold a leadership election until at least the following year, unless the next Knesset election were to have been scheduled earlier than the anticipated 1992. The committee's vote to reject Rabin's push for a 1990 leadership contest was regarded as an
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would likely succeed in forming a new government coalition without the
Israeli Labor Party, Rabin unsuccessfully sought to convince the party to schedule a leadership election in 1990. A prospective leadership race in 1990 had looked promising to Rabin. Peres was weakened from the backfiring of "the
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indicated that the party would fare better in the legislative election under the leadership of Rabin than it would under Peres. Israeli political commentators also widely believed that the party would have a stronger odds of electoral success under Rabin than under Peres. While polling, before the
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elections. Rabin had preceded Peres in the role of the party's leader, before resigning in 1977. This was the fourth (and final) leadership election in which Peresa and Rabin faced each other (following the
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would have been held. Rabin placed first, and managed to narrowly surpass the 40% threshold, thereby winning the leadership election outright in the initial round.
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declaring that they intended to run for Labor Party leader. Ultimately, Shahal abandoned his plans.
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was held on 20 February 1992 to elect the leader of the
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