Israeli MK and Deputy Knesset Speaker Danny Danon. Photo: World Likud.

Times of Israel – Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon was elected head of the Likud convention by a landslide late Tuesday in a show of force ahead of Sunday’s critical vote for the chairmanship of the Likud Central Committee.

A victory Sunday against two relatively anonymous opponents would grant him control over the ruling party’s powerful internal apparatus and the power to stymie any initiative that requires the approval of the committee’s 3,500 members.

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