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Israel's Sharon, Peretz meet for election talks
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-11-17 15:38
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and new Labour party leader Amir Peretz
met on Thursday for talks on breaking up the ruling coalition and setting a date
for early elections, a spokesman for Peretz said.
After a surprise win in Labour's leadership contest last week, Peretz said he
wanted to take leftist Labour out of the alliance with Sharon's right-wing Likud
and prepare for elections early next year.
Sharon, meeting Peretz for the first time since the Labour leadership vote,
has said that he favours holding an election as early as February. Labour's
departure would leave Sharon without a parliamentary majority.
A spokesman for Peretz said they were meeting in Tel Aviv.
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