Sharon&#39;s party rejects coalition bid
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has voted to bar him from forming a coalition with the Labour opposition, an embarrassing blow that complicates his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has asked his party&#39;s Central Committee to approve co-opting the Labor, Torah Judaism and Shas parties into the coalition.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  on Tuesday rejected a call from Benjamin Netanyahu, his main  rival in the Likud party, to put his Gaza withdrawal plan to a  referendum and vowed to carry it out on schedule.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's budget is voted down by Israeli MPs, threatening his coalition government.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approached the opposition Labour Party with a tentative offer to join his shaky coalition, in hopes of avoiding early elections and saving his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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The Israeli Knesset last night dealt a staggering political blow to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, rejecting on a 53-44 vote his report on the
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday rejected calls from Jewish settlers to hold a countrywide referendum on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, escalating an increasingly bitter dispute with former allies who now accuse him of leading
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected a demand Sunday by Jewish settlers that he hold a national referendum on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to forge a coalition with the opposition Labour Party on Tuesday, to save his ruined government and stave off snap elections that could stymie his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  hopes to persuade his divided Likud party to back him on  Thursday in a vote on rebuilding the government, averting snap  elections and pushing through his Gaza withdrawal plan. In an  11th-hour challenge, Likud rebels opposed to ceding land to the  Palestinians filed a court petition against Sharon's bid to  bring the opposition Labour party into the coalition.
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The Likud loyalist faction, which numbered close to twenty at its prime, has diminished to a mere nine Likud faction members voting against giving Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a mandate to bring the Labor Party into the government.
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JERUSALEM Aug. 18, 2004  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday rebuffed rebellious members of his own Likud Party and signaled he would seek an alliance with the opposition Labor to gain support for his plan for pulling out of the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli political parties that oppose Ariel Sharon&#39;s Gaza withdrawal plan have no place in a future government coalition, one Cabinet minister said.
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Israel&#39;s pro-settler National Religious Party (NRP) decided to resign from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s coalition government after Sharon refused to put his disengagement plan to a national referendum.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party voted on Wednesday to bar him from forming a coalition with the Labour opposition, an embarrassing blow that complicates his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party voted on Thursday in favor of his bid to bring the  opposition Labour party into government, said Army Radio citing  an initial ballot count.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  urged his Likud party on Thursday to vote for a governing  alliance with the Labour Party, warning that failure to do so  would force snap elections and derail his Gaza withdrawal plan.  Internal polls predict victory for Sharon in a crucial ballot  by the rightist Likud's Central Committee on whether to allow  him to open talks with center-left Labour on joining a unity  coalition to shore up his shattered government.