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December 29, 1997 | SARAH HONIG | Copyright

SARAH HONIG
Jerusalem Post
12-29-1997
As expected, Labor Knesset Faction Head Ra'anan Cohen was last night elected by a landslide as his party's secretary-general.

His main opponent, former MK Eli Dayan, and others who dropped out of the race, charged that the proceedings were rigged and that Labor chairman Ehud Barak had early on chosen Cohen and then loaded the odds overwhelmingly in his favor.

In all, 76 percent of Labor central committee members cast ballots for Cohen.

The result was regarded as such a forgone conclusion that the central committee session at Pavillion 28 of the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds - the site of November's ill-fated Likud convention - …

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