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...weeks, Netanyahu struggled to build a coalition. The result is a Rube Goldberg-like contraption with 30 Cabinet ministers and seven deputy ministers. (Britain, a nation nearly 10 times the size of Israel, has only 22 Cabinet ministers.) Opposition leader Tzipi Livni, of the centrist Kadima Party, called the new government "bloated" with "ministers of nothing." A Haaretz poll shows that, with Netanyahu's leadership less than 24 hours old, 54% of Israelis are "unhappy" with his sprawling government, leading one Israeli pundit to comment (using the politician's nickname), "Bibi's period of grace lasted...
...trouble began when centrist and leftist politicians realized that Le Pen, 80, was now the eldest member in the parliament. That distinction brings with it the ceremonial presidency during the opening session of every new European Parliament. Determined to stop Le Pen taking the role during parliament's next inaugural session in July, his opponents have begun an energetic drive to alter the rule. (Read a TIME story...
...Still, Khatami's supporters had tried desperately to persuade their man to stay in the race rather than concede to Moussavi, who has more centrist supporters and has fewer opponents among the fundamentalists who dominate Iran's political system; while all the newspapers associated with Khatami's original reform movement have been closed down, for example, Moussavi was recently given permission to start a paper...
...foreign policy. For now, Ahmadinejad is the sole conservative candidate, but Tehran mayor Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf has signaled his intention to run, and there has also been talk of a presidential bid by former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, who carries the backing of such powerhouses in the pragmatic centrist ranks as former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of the clerical body that elects the Supreme Leader...
...huge political impact," says philosopher Fernando Savater, who in 2007 founded the centrist Union for Progress and Democracy party in an attempt to forge a third way between the two major parties. "Both the government and the opposition managed the attacks in partisan terms...