Two right-wing parties have left his ruling coalition, he has lost his majority within his own Likud Party, and his finance minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has quit his government. Only by bringing Shimon Peres’s Labor Party into his cabinet did Sharon manage to retain his parliamentary majority.
与此同时，沙龙也为他的政策付出了沉重的代价。两个右翼党派离开了他的执政联盟，他在自己的利库德集团内部也失去了大多数的支持。他的财政部长内塔尼亚胡也从政府辞职。只有通过将西蒙·佩雷斯的工党拉入内阁才勉强保住了自己在议会的多数席位。