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Netanyahu says the Likud is on its way back to government, promises to reunite the party |
In his victory speech, former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu says
the Likud is on its way back to government , promises to reunite the
party
December 20, 2005, 3:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
Netanyahu won the Likud primary leadership vote Monday, Dec. 19, by 44%
according to partial results. He was trailed by foreign minister Silvan
Shalom (33%) who conceded victory and pledged support for Netanyahu.
DEBKAfile's political analysts note the irony in the concatenation of
prime minister Ariel Sharon's discharge from hospital Tuesday, Dec.
20, after a minor stroke, and the restoration to Lilkud leadership of
Netanyahu, his foremost rival and predecessor as head of government and
party. Moshe Faiglin came third with an estimated 13% followed by
Avraham Katz with 8%.
Sharon is ordered by his doctors to stay home for a few days' rest
- home being his Jerusalem residence rather than his Sycamore Ranch,
so as to be available for "ambulatory treatment" close to the
hospital.
Netanyahu in contrast will be extremely busy.
The primary was held to fill the vacancy left by Sharon's walkout. He
split Likud and created Kadima to campaign for a third term in an early
general election on March 28. Netanyahu's victory, the prime
minister's sudden medical failing and the emergency of a new Labor
leader, Amir Peretz, have combined to set Israel's major political
groupings on a fresh footing at the starting-line of a national
election campaign.
The new Likud leader's most obvious course would be to muster 61
Knesset members to topple the Sharon government and form a coalition to
serve up to November 2006 instead of letting the early March poll
stand. This would be a grave setback for Sharon and his new venture,
offering Labor, Likud, Change and the ultra-religious Shas a chance to
recover defecting voter-blocs which made Kadima the pollsters'
darling before Sharon's illness. But there are few signs of enough
takers to make this scheme viable by the Dec. 29 deadline.
Therefore, the next three months will see a grim, no-holds-barred
struggle among three determined men. For the first time in Israel's
political history, three parties and three leaders will be vying on
equal ground to head a government.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=1474
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20 Dec 2005 04:27:41 AM |
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wrote:
In his victory speech, former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu says
the Likud is on its way back to government , promises to reunite the
party
Nobody can unite the various factions in Likud.Netanyahu can't even control
hs wife let alone Likudniks.
TillyGr@hotmail.com
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