Back Eleccions directes del Primer Ministre de 2001 Catalan Volby izraelského premiéra 2001 Czech Elecciones generales de Israel de 2001 Spanish Élection ministérielle israélienne de 2001 French הבחירות המיוחדות לראשות הממשלה – 2001 HE Elezioni del Primo ministro in Israele del 2001 Italian 2001 оны Израилын ерөнхий сайдын сонгууль Mongolian Israëlische directe premiersverkiezingen 2001 Dutch Wybory premiera w Izraelu w 2001 roku Polish Eleição para primeiro-ministro de Israel em 2001 Portuguese
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Prime ministerial elections were held in Israel on 6 February 2001 following the resignation of the incumbent Prime Minister Ehud Barak on 9 December 2000. Barak stood for re-election against Likud's Ariel Sharon.
The third and last prime ministerial elections (separate elections were scrapped before the next Knesset elections in 2003), they were the only ones not held alongside simultaneous Knesset elections.
Voter turnout was 62%, the lowest turnout for any national election held in Israel. The low turnout was at least partially due to many Israeli Arabs boycotting the elections in protest at the October 2000 events in which twelve Israeli Arabs were killed by the police.[1] Other possible reasons are Sharon's massive lead in opinion polling, and the lack of enthusiasm among Barak supporters due to his perceived failings, notably, the failure of the 2000 Camp David talks with the Palestinians, and the "turbine affair" in which Barak yielded to the religious parties' pressure, violating previous promises.
- ^ Barak concedes defeat The Guardian, 6 February 2001