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"Following consultations with parliamentary factions, today I signed the decree appointing Mr. Alexandru Munteanu as candidate for the office of prime minister of the Republic of Moldova," Sandu said in a post on Facebook.

Most members of this maverick faction in the Conservative party were united by politics, not personal bonds.

Overhauls and changes to the environmental law have for years faced fierce opposition from progressive lawmakers, environmentalists and labor unions — key factions in California’s Democratic majority.

Hamas's chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, who is in Cairo, meanwhile insisted that his group and other Palestinian factions were committed to the ceasefire deal and "determined to fully implement it until the end".

Initially, Israel offered discreet support to Hamas, seeing it as a useful counterweight to the PLO and its dominant faction, Fatah, led at the time by Yasser Arafat.