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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1533)10/31/2002 1:09:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 6901
 
It now looks like Sharon is determined to stay in power and will form another coalition with the ultra-nationalists & religious groups.
I'm not sure if he has the numbers to pull it off.. But Nadine seems to think so...


He has the numbers if the smaller parties agree. But Sharon's personal interests and the interests of all the parties of the Right, including the Likud, have diverged at this point. Sharon would rather not face the intra-party challenge from Bibi right now (though polls say he would win), especially with the American-Iraqi war coming anytime, but the parties know that they are likely to win the Knesset elections, big-time, so why put off new elections? MK Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of National Unity/Yisrael Beiteinu faction, which was in Sharon's government but pulled out in March, has announced that he prefers early elections to rejoining the government.
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