Sharon says will seek coalition with Labour
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he will seek a governing coalition with Shimon Peres&#39;s Labour Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza pullout.
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JERUSALEM  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called opposition Labour party leader Shimon Peres to start talks on forming a coalition government, a government source says.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he'll turn to his old rivals in the Labor Party to save his shattered coalition and get the support he needs to leave the Gaza Strip.
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Israel&#39;s two leading rival political parties worked Saturday toward finalizing details for a new coalition government that would empower Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to pursue
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Labour Party chief Shimon Peres appealed to hard-liners in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud on Friday to drop their opposition to forging a unity coalition seen as vital to keeping Israel's Gaza withdrawal on track.
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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, officials said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  Friday invited the opposition Labor Party to begin talks to  form a unity government, a move that would avoid early  elections and pave the way for a withdrawal from 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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JERUSALEM  - Israel looked poised for a new coalition government within a week as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began talks with ultra-Orthodox parties alongside negotiations with the main opposition Labour faction.
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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s prime minister stepped up efforts yesterday to overcome resistance within his right-wing Likud party to include Labour in an enlarged government coalition, ahead of a decisive party meeting next week.
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Israel's opposition Labour party authorises its leader to begin talks on joining a national unity government.
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JERUSALEM : Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party votes on Sharon&#39;s intention to bring the opposition Labour party into government, the day after he gave the green light to the construction of 1,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urged his Likud party 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.
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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.
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Ariel Sharon pledged today to enter talks with opposition parties to rebuild his shattered governing coalition and avert early elections that would jeopardise his plans to withdraw from Gaza.
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Israel's opposition Labour party is  likely to join Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition next  week, a move that could promote a Gaza pullout plan and also  avoid early elections, his spokesman said on Friday.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will seek support from his Likud Party today for his proposal to bring the Labor Party into the government and strengthen backing for his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.