Ariel Sharon is absent from the Kadima Party’s candidate list for March 28 elections. Despite proposals to place the comatose prime minister on the roster as a symbolic show of faith that he will recover from his Jan. 4 stroke, Sharon was not among the 50 candidates named Tuesday by Kadima.
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