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Sharon Destroys Another of His Works: The Likud
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“MK Omri Sharon, the Prime Minister’s son who pleaded guilty last week to violating campaign funding laws on behalf of his father’s primaries victory in a previous election, has not resigned from the Knesset as a result – and MK Aryeh Eldad thinks he knows why: ‘This way, he can be possibly the 14th MK to join his father’s new party – and if in fact the new party gets that many MKs, that is more than a third of the Likud. According to election laws, if one-third of a party breaks away, it receives one-third of the parent party’s campaign funding and broadcast time – and in the case of the Likud, of course, this adds up to a lot. That’s apparently why Omri Sharon didn’t resign – to keep the millions for his father’s new party.‘”