Sharon's Party Votes to Exclude Labor
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's own party handed him a stinging rebuke, banning him from adding the moderate Labor Party to his government to bolster a Gaza pullout plan &#151; a move that endangered the proposed withdrawal.
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Israel's opposition Labour party said  on Sunday it had no preconditions for joining with Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon, paving the way for a broad new  government to push through his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  won a crucial Likud party vote on Thursday that will let him  bring opposition Labour into his shattered coalition and power  forward a plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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Labor Party members cast ballots Monday for their leader, a contest that could have serious implications for the makeup of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's governing coalition and his own political survival.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Likud faction supporters that the party members who oppose his Gaza plan will be targeted with sanctions after they failed to vote in support of his address to the opening session of the Knesset winter
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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s opposition Labour Party has agreed to join a coalition with Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party, a move seen as safeguarding the prime minister&#39;s vow to withdraw from Gaza.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's Likud party is to  vote on whether to invite the opposition Labour Party into the coalition.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has agreed to a possible alliance with the opposition Labour group. The vote averts a snap election and strengthens Mr Sharon&#39;s controversial Gaza withdrawal plan.
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The moderate Labor Party has chosen young lawmakers to serve as ministers in a new government under the leadership of Ariel Sharon, another step toward forming an alliance that will solidly back a planned Gaza withdrawal.
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The opposition Labor Party said Wednesday that it will stop acting as a political safety net for the government and begin opposing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in parliament next week, jeopardizing his minority coalition and Gaza withdrawal plan.
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VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Lithuanians rejected the ruling coalition in favor of the populist Labor Party in parliamentary elections -- a sign that many voters liked Labor&#39;s promises of lower taxes and higher pay.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  marshalled support on Wednesday for a Likud party vote to bring  the Labour Party into government, a move that would avoid snap  elections and pave the way for a Gaza withdrawal next year.
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The Israeli parliament has voted against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon government&#39;s 2005 budget, plunging the ruling coalition into turmoil.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party has dealt a serious setback to his plan to evacuate  occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from forging a broad  coalition with the Labour opposition.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon'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&#39;s Likud party agreed on Thursday to a possible alliance with opposition Labour in a vote that averted a snap election and strengthened his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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The head of Israel&#39;s opposition Labor Party signaled Thursday that his party is not only willing but eager to join a unity government with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon because it backs his plan to pull out of Gaza and parts of