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An election for the leadership of Kadima was held on 17 September 2008 as a concession to Kadima’s coalition partner Labour which had threatened to bring down the government if Prime Minister Ehud Olmert didn’t stand aside following police investigations into alleged corruption during his terms as minister and as mayor of Jerusalem.As Kadima remained the largest party in the Knesset and the coalition Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni the designated new leader after balloting had the chance to form a government without a need for elections.
