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To: TimF who wrote (452155)	1/29/2009 3:49:11 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574109

I think it won only once majority seats....sometime in the '90s. I think it may be more than once, but whether or not that's true, winning a majority isn't necessarily expected in a system like Israel's. You have multiple parties, and often the biggest party only has a plurality (and sometimes just barely that), not a majority. I misspoke. Likud is not a small party. It has been an opposition party in Israel since the 1970s and it does lead the right wing parties. However when the split into Kadima occurred, the party lost a number of members and no longer is as big as it once was. Still, it has considerable influence in Israeli politics.