Ariel Sharon is likely to win a third term as Israeli prime minister as head of a new political party, polls predicted. The surveys published Tuesday in Yediot Achronot and Ma’ariv gave Sharon’s new party — which he tentatively named “National Responsibility” — between 30 and 33 of the Knesset’s 120 seats in the next elections.
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