Cabinet ministers from Israel's Likud party will resign from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet this Sunday, party leader Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
3 Jan 2006
"The Likud must serve as an alternative to the policy of the Sharon government of continuing unilateral withdrawals," Netanyahu said in a statement.
The departure of the Likud ministers, following the earlier resignation of centre-left Labour, will leave Sharon with just seven other members of his cabinet, all of whom defected to his Kadima party.
Sharon can now appoint other ministers in a temporary capacity if he wants or continue to hold the vacant portfolios himself.
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