Labor party chairwoman Shelly Yachimovitch will need a lot of successful political maneuvering in the coming months, and some luck as well, to hold on to her job. According to some very high-level sources in the Labor party, an initiative is being kicked around these days to hold "lightning primaries," within a few months from today, in order to bring an “end to the Yachimovich dictatorship era.”
According to the Labor party’s constitution, if the party does not assemble the government after elections, primaries must be held to elect its leadership within 14 months. But now it seems that Yachimovich, who is viewed as being personally responsible for the failure in the elections, will be forced to deal with a demand for primaries a long time before the legal deadline.