日韩精品久久一区二区三区_亚洲色图p_亚洲综合在线最大成人_国产中出在线观看_日韩免费_亚洲综合在线一区

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

Sharon's allies, rival jockey for position
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-12 22:06

Israel returned to politics Thursday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remained comatose a week after a massive stroke, with his allies jockeying for position and his main rival ordering his party's ministers to quit the Cabinet.


Israelis walk by poster, placed on top of others of ailing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, showing Shimon Peres, the Labor Party elder statesman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who abandoned his party to join Sharon's new party Kadima, in Jerusalem Wednesday Jan. 11, 2006. Kadima confirmed on Wednesday that Peres will fill the No. 2 spot on Kadima's list for the upcoming lsraeli legislative elections scheduled for March 28. The writing under the portrait reads in Hebrew ' Forward ( Kadima in Hebrew) Peres'.[AP]

The central committee of Sharon's forsaken Likud party was expected to choose a list of candidates Thursday for March 28 national elections, with polls showing the party losing more than half its strength from the last vote — when Sharon was the leader. The same polls show the prime minister's new party, Kadima, maintaining a huge lead despite — or perhaps helped by — his illness.

Sharon's successor as Likud leader, ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered his party's Cabinet ministers to quit. But Israeli media reported that the four ministers would ignore the order, plunging the hard-line movement, already reeling from Sharon's defection, into further disarray. Netanyahu had planned to withdraw the party from the government, but suspended the order following Sharon's massive stroke Jan. 4.

Uncertainty over Sharon's condition has clouded Kadima's campaign plans.

Sharon's condition was unchanged Thursday — critical but stable, according to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, where he was being treated. A statement said his heart rhythm was regular and he would undergo a routine CT scan later in the day.

Sharon's doctors said Wednesday they hoped to completely remove him soon from the sedatives that have kept him in a coma since the stroke — a process that could take a day and a half. Doctors said after the sedatives were stopped that it would be days, perhaps weeks, before a full picture of the damage from the stroke emerges.

"We're talking about a long, slow and drawn-out process and we hope that it will always develop positively. It's very hard to say what the pace will be," Dr. Yoram Weiss said.

One of Sharon's neurosurgeons, Jose Cohen, said most patients open their eyes within three weeks after sedation, and the sooner this happens, the better. However, Sharon was certain to have sustained some cognitive damage, he said.

"There will be changes, but what changes, nobody knows," Cohen told Israel TV.

Sharon's closest ally, Ehud Olmert, has taken over as acting prime minister. If Sharon is ruled permanently incapacitated, the Cabinet would have to pick a replacement until the election — probably Olmert.

Since Sharon's stroke, Olmert has worked to project an air of stability, holding Cabinet meetings and assuring the country that the government was functioning normally. He spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday and gave him an update on Sharon's condition.

Olmert had previously been seen as an unlikely candidate for prime minister, but his calm stewardship of the crisis has turned him into the clear front-runner.

A poll for Channel 10 TV and the Haaretz daily projected that an Olmert-headed Kadima would win 44 of 120 seats, an outcome that would virtually assure it would lead the next government. Likud and the dovish Labor Party trailed with about 15 seats each. Pollsters questioned 640 voters but did not give a margin of error.

Kadima politicians cautioned against reading too much into the poll, while experts said the results might reflect sympathy for Sharon's plight and might not hold.

"We know about the limitations of these polls," Kadima lawmaker Haim Ramon told Israel TV. "This just says that it depends on what we do. This week we acted well."

Sharon formed the party late last year, bolting from Likud after many of its lawmakers tried to torpedo his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

Though many experienced politicians joined the centrist Kadima, it was largely seen as a one-man show. Sharon had not yet drawn up the party's election list — a difficult and often divisive process — when he suffered his stroke.

On Wednesday, some Kadima officials discussed running Sharon symbolically in the top position on the list, but making Olmert their candidate for prime minister. "Let's say that (Sharon) has serious physical limitations, but in all other capacities he functions. There is no one better than him for the first place," Ramon said.

Tourism Minister Abraham Hirchson, also of Kadima, said the party should wait to see Sharon's condition before making a decision.

Opposition politicians, however, criticized the idea.

"I don't think that at the moment Sharon should be seen as some kind of electoral asset to be used by Kadima or anyone else," Likud lawmaker Yuval Steinitz told Israel TV, dismissing the proposal as "inappropriate."

Other politicians appeared to accept that Olmert would take Sharon's place as leader of the party. "I'm waiting for Ehud Olmert to come out and say what exactly the Sharon tradition means to him," Labor lawmaker Yuli Tamir said. "Then we can have a proper political debate."



Int'l celebration of Voodoo spirituality
Blair unveils new crackdown on yob behaviour
European Auto Show
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Two more deaths from bird flu reported in China

 

   
 

Nation's richest divulge luxury tastes

 

   
 

China remains world's 3rd largest trader

 

   
 

Olympic medal design competition launched

 

   
 

Thailand, China to launch herbal drug for HIV

 

   
 

Report warns of unhealthy lifestyle

 

   
  Sharon's allies, rival jockey for position
   
  Israel back to politics as Sharon's condition improves
   
  Dozens reported killed in Hajj stampede
   
  Two more Turks test positive for bird flu
   
  US wants quick resumption of nuke talks
   
  Iran defiant as sanctions from west likely
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 日本高清视频wwww色 | 96国产精品久久久久aⅴ四区 | 日韩午夜伦y4480私人影院 | 亚洲精品久久国产高清 | 99精品大香线蕉线伊人久久久 | 八武将免费完整版在线观看 | 日本视频在线免费观看 | 欧美一区二区三区四区不卡 | 看黄网站在线 | 午夜剧院官方 | 久久一区二区精品综合 | 欧美日韩一区二区综合在线视频 | 国产片翁熄系列乱在线视频 | 香蕉视频在线观看视频 | 久久久久亚洲精品 | 麻豆精品一区二区 | 天天干天天干天天干天天干天天干 | 日本高清www无色夜在 | 北条麻妃国产九九九精品小说 | 亚洲国产精品一区二区久久 | 亚洲美女视频 | 一个色综合网 | 涩涩伊人| 一级毛片一级毛片一级毛片 | 不卡的av在线 | 日韩中文在线 | 亚洲精品久久久久无码AV片软件 | 亚洲综合色网 | 日韩欧美三级在线 | 国产超碰人人做人人爱 | 亚洲一区二区三区在线免费观看 | 九九热视频免费 | 三级欧美日韩 | 清草在线视频精品 | 午夜av成人 | 香蕉视频在线观看视频 | 免费看黄a | 波多野结衣在线免费 | 日本色播 | 日韩欧美一区二区三区四区 | 奇米视频在线观看 |