Netanyahu wins Likud leader poll

mkpdavies · 20-12-2005, 05:01 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4543906.stm

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has won the leadership of the right-wing Likud party.

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The rump of the Likud party left after Mr Sharon left to form a new party consists mainly of hardline right-wingers, says the BBC's Richard Galpin in Jerusalem.

Mr Netanyahu has staked out a very clear position, rejecting the handing back of any more occupied territory to the Palestinians unless it is first put to the Israeli people in a referendum.

Likud is currently in third place in opinion polls for the country's forthcoming general election, with Mr Sharon's newly created Kadima party leading the way.

Amazing that Sharon walked and took most with him! Likud have been around for ages, yet the people have shunned them too.

Why can't something like that happen with our parties!

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