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...thousands of Israeli settlers being uprooted from Gaza and from his own right-wing Likud bloc. To give him greater freedom to promote his vision of peace, Sharon recently announced that he was leaving Likud, the political party he helped found 30 years ago, to form a new, more centrist party, called Kadima. As Sharon clings to life, his lasting legacy may well be his Kadima party, which still appears to be the favorite to become the dominant party after the elections in March. But we do not yet know what the character of that legacy will be. Kadima does...
...profit most from Sharon's tragedy, however, is his archrival, Benjamin Netanyahu, the onetime Prime Minister whose tenure was marked by relentless opposition to any territorial trade-aways. Left running a rump party populated by the far right that polls a humiliating third, Netanyahu hopes to woo back disenchanted centrists who may fear doing deals with the Arabs without Sharon's strong arm. "He definitely wants to adhere to a more centrist position," says Likud veteran Zalman Shoval, a former ambassador to Washington under Netanyahu...
...ballot initiatives by voters who thought he had become too conservative and combative during the special election last November. The Republican Governor is trying to rally by championing levee restoration and a host of other largely nonpartisan programs in a concerted attempt to recast himself as the consensus-building centrist he promised to be when he was elected two years ago. To that end he has added more moderates to his inner circle?most notably staff chief Susan Kennedy, an iconoclastic Democrat who supports abortion rights but shares the Governor's hostility to government regulation. And he has demoted partisans...
...Socialist president Ricardo Lagos Escobar-taking nearly 46% of the first round vote versus the 25% garnered by second-place Pi?era-she has to avoid moving too far to the left in the remaining days of the campaign so as not to alienate the country's large bloc of centrist voters. Bachelet, a physician who would become Chile's first woman president, is unlikely to mess with Chile's good diplomatic and economic ties with the United States that have been maintained by her fellow Socialist Lagos. In the meantime, Chile, whether under a Bachelet or a Pi?era administration...
...Worker's Party to victory in the polls, there is still some doubt as to whether he will run for a second four-year term. He might throw his weight behind his Minister for National Intergration, Ciro Gomes. Polls taken last month showed the Mayor of Sao Paulo, the centrist Jose Serra, beating Lula in a multi-candidate matchup. However, Serra is a notriously poor campaigner and he has been mayor for only a year. The governor of Sao Paulo state, Geraldo Alckmin, is another potential contender but he is not yet well known outside of his state. At this...