Article: World Likud splits over election commotion

GIL HOFFMAN
Jerusalem Post
06-19-2006
Headline: World Likud splits over election commotion
Byline: GIL HOFFMAN
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 04

Monday, June 19, 2006 -- Seven months after the division of the Likud and three months after it suffered its worst ever electoral defeat, the party's international body, the World Likud, split in two on Sunday in a chaotic Jerusalem convention.

The split means that loyalists of party chairman Binyamin Netanyahu will not have any power in the World Zionist Organization and that the party's supporters overseas who have not left to join Kadima will now have to choose between two rival Likud factions. World Likud activists on both sides of the split ...

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