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Sunday, August 10, 2008 |
NRP, NU step up efforts to create new broad traditional list |
NRP, NU step up efforts to create new broad traditional list The National Religious Party and the National Union have stepped up efforts Religious Zionist and right-wing politicians and public leaders hope to MKs from the two parties, which ran together in the last national election But in the wake of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement that he will MK Uri Ariel (NU) said there were talks going on with all members of the NU "We have agreement in principle on the creation of a united list and we have "But we are still trying to hammer out the details of how we will choose the NRP Chairman Zevulun Orlev wants to hold a primary while Ariel and other MKs Some of those mentioned as possible committee members include singer Yehoram The three men are representative of three sectors who could potentially Gaon represents the Israeli Jew who has strong ties to tradition and Zafrani comes from the more religiously conservative segment of religious A source close to the negotiations said that the intransigence of MK Effi "Effi is a tough person to deal with," said the source. "He doesn't care The sources also said that Eitam had difficulties getting along with Orlev. In addition to the obstacles on the personal level, the future united list NU spokesman Yigal Amitai said it was still unclear whether or not the new Meimad, a left-wing religious party that is presently united with Labor, and Amitai did not rule out the possibility that one of the two would be Amitai said that both the NU and the NRP saw an early national election as a "Tzipi Livni [the front-runner in the Kadima primary] with Ronnie Bar-On as "We should be getting ready for elections very soon," Amitai said. |
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