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Labour's top candidate Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir as they appeared to viewers during the TV debate.
JERUSALEM POST POLL:
Labour ahead
Leaders stick to well-worn themes
LABOUR Alignment's lead
over the Likud in the July 23
election race has been narrowed
-to 10 per cent — 39.5 per cent
for Labour to 29.5 per cent for
the Likud — in a poll taken by.
the Smith Research Centre last
week.
Compared to their June poll
results, this represented a loss of
4.5 per cent for Labour and a
tain of 1.5 per cent for the Likud.
Labour lost most of its percentage
and Morasha, and to Kach. All these
the past;" he told the prime minister.
lists except Kach were safely. over
He went on to say that the Likud
. By ROY.1SACOWITZ
Peres accused the Likud of spoil-
the 1 per cent barrier.
had eliminated the line between the
Jerusalem Post Reporter '
ing the chances of peace with Egypt
The poll was carried out in all
The widely-publicized "con- "first and the second Israel," and
and Lebanon. He said the govern-
parts of the country among 1,200 frontation". on Israel Television had Instilled a feeling of dignity and
ment invited Jordan's King Hussein
Jewish voters, and included mosha- between Prime Minister Yitzhak belongingness in the nation. Now,
to negotiate, while at the same time
'Vim and kibbutzim as well as the Shamir and Alignment leader Shi- he said, the people in the neighbour-
telling hiM that there is nothing to
urban population.
mon Peres last week added few fresh hodds are .afraid that the Align-
talk about.
Labour's lead over the Likud was ideas or strategies to the election ment's policy will lead to their being
"It is our duty to give the youth
still substantial, but it is impossible campaign. Both men relied on the "dominated" again.
not only army call-up notices but
to predict the trend over the 10 days themes and phrases that have Char-
Pattir's second • question con-
also a hope of peace," Peres said. He
remaining until election day.
cerned relations with the U.S. and
acterized their party campaigns..
Ezer W.eizman's Yahad list lost 1
the future of the Reagan Plan;'the promised that an Alignment govern-
By mutual consent, each candi-
per cent, but even with 2.5 per cent date had two minutes to answer each
conditions necessary for peaceful ment would search for peace without
of the vote this still makes him an of four questions, dealing with social
coexistence. with Lebanon; the compromising security and would
points to other opposition parties.
important factor in setting up a new problems, foreign policy, the eco-
chances and dangers of negotiations tell Hussein that the two countries
Shinui won nearly 3.5 per cent
government,
if
the
poll
results
hold
with Jordan; and Israel-Egypt rela- do have things to talk about.
of the voters polled, and the Citizens
nomy and security.
Replying to the third question —
on
July
23.
The questions, which were agreed tions.
Right Movement won nearly 2
What can and should be done in the
The
undecided
vote
as
measured
Shamir,
who
answered
first,
said
per cent. Arie Eliav stood a good
on in advance, were posed by veter-
field of economics? Peres said that
that .the past seven years have seen
chance of passing the 1 per cent by the Smith poll continued to be
an journalist Dan Pattir.
the government must be judged by
very
small,
standing
at
3
per
cent.
barrier needed for Knesset repre-
Peres opened the debate on the unprecedented cooperation, be- its actions, not its promises: He
The. gains made by the small and
question of what the Alignment tween Israel and the U.S.. and' im- • proceeded to detail what, in his
sentation.
The Likud gained votes from new parties would- indicate — if this would do to close the social gap. He .Obved telationswithEuropethaf,
trend continues — that formation of a began by stressing that the central despite the Likud government's opinion, the result of the govern-
Labour and from some of the mil-
new government could become ex- factor in Israeli society since the
stated opposition to territorial com- ment's economic policies have been:
,. gious parties. But it lost voters to
tremely
complicated.
promise. These relations could he the government, he said., has
establishment of the state has been
Tehiya and Yigal Hurvitz's Ometz
The
Arab
vote
was
not
included
in
damaged by "irresponsible ideas," emptied the state's coffers, and fore-
its character as a land of aliya. While
list. Tehiya received cldse to 5 per
ign currency reserves are dangerous-
the
poll.
But
however
the
Arab
vote
he said.
the Alignment was in power, he said,
cent and Hurvitz 2 per cent in the
ly low. In the past nine months-the
is spread, it will further complicate
Shamir
stressed
that
the
govern-
the
population
went
up
400
per
cent.
poll.
period that Shamir has served as
Ment,
had
frequently
informed
Jor-
The total vote for the religious forming a government along the pre-
In the past seven years, he con-
prime minister — inflation has
sent
coalition
and
opposition
lines.
dan
that
it
was
prepared
to
negotiate
parties was unchanged, but the
tinued, aliya has almost stopped,
jumped from 200 per cent to 400 per
What
is
'clear
is
that
race
has
on
the
basis.
of
the
Camp
-
David
National Religious 'Party, Agudat
social gaps have widened, agricul-
cent, Peres said.
become
closer
as
,election
day
peace
plan.
Regarding
Egypt,'
he
Yisrael and Tami continued to lose
ture has failed and industrial pro*.
Shamir replied to Peres's attack by
approaches.
said
that
hik
government
will
'try,
to
votes to the new religious lists Shas
.tivity has dropped. The govern-
saying that the government had
in
the
framework
impriwe
relations
nient's widely publicized program-
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me to revitalize old neighbourhoods of the Ititael-Egypt-U.S. rela-
Results by parties and blocs (Jewish voters) in percentages
tionship and on the basis . of Camp •
has ground to a halt, with its budget
• David and normalization.
July
June
April
spent.
1981
No pOlitical problems stand in the
poll
poll
poll
Alignment
elections
Peres stated that .
Party or bloc
nge the order way of peaceful . coexistence with
government would ca
Lebanon that cannot he dealt with.
This report was
29.5
28
28
40
of priorities and reinfuse into the
Likud
Shamir said. • , • ;
7
5.5
.
5.5
prepared
by the
4
society
a
"sensitivity
to
equality."
Tehiya, Ometz (Hurvitz)
Peres sharply attacked • the Likud
6
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Answering the 'same question,
NRP, Aguda, Tami
12
. 12.5
Jerusalem
post in
government's
foreign-policy,
record.
4.5
1 3.5
Shamir pointed• to the "great.
Morasha, Shas, Kach j
"The
Foreign
Ministry
is
not-a
travel
39.5
44
cooperation
with The
41
strides" made by the Likud on social
37.5
.Alignment
agency," he Peace, must not
6.5
4
3.5.
matters,
including
heavy
investment
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Jewish News.
2.5
3.5
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in social amenities. The Likud, he .• ' only be spoken about, it must also be.
Yahad (Weizman)
- achieved. "What you promise - for
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brought
light
and
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