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Lapid lauds Kadima on return 'home' to Likud
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| Author | HILARY LEILA KRIEGER |
| Media | Newspaper - Jerusalem Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 9, 2012 08:35:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON – Yair Lapid on Tuesday congratulated Kadima on returning “home” to the Likud and argued that the creation of a national unity government strengthened his new position as the head of the only centrist party in Israel.
“Kadima came back to be what it has actually always has been, which is part of the Likud,” Lapid charged during an address to the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement in Atlanta. “They came back home and I want to use this opportunity to congratulate them on this reunification.”
Lapid’s new Yesh Atid party was polling at upwards of 11 Knesset seats had elections been called for early September, as had been expected until early Tuesday morning.
While analysts have been interpreting the national unity decision as a significant setback for the emerging politician, Lapid contended that the anticipated delay of more than a year before elections will allow him to organize and build his constituency.
“We are now the only centrist party,” he told the Conservative rabbis he was addressing. “We became the sole representative of the majority of the people of Israel.” |
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