GAZA — The Palestinian militant group Hamas announced Saturday that its political leader, Khaled Meshal, would not seek re-election, opening the door to a possible leadership contest and adding to the uncertainty enveloping Hamas at a time of regional turmoil.
CNBC's David Faber reported this morning that activist investor Nelson Peltz, chairman of Triarc, continues to buy up shares of Heinz in advance of a possible proxy contest against the board.
WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION The Palestinian militant group Hamas announced that its political leader, Khaled Meshal, would not seek re-election, opening the door to a possible leadership contest and adding to the uncertainty enveloping Hamas at a time of regional turmoil.
"There is a genuine weariness and horror at the thought of more disruption, turmoil and a possible leadership contest," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
And we've got several states which weren't on anyone's radar as a possible close contest, so in some places polling data is very thin on the ground.
Pressed on the possible contest between him and Alan Milburn ("I'm a huge fan of Alan's") she says it's all wildly speculative.
Abbott said Labour needed the "broadest possible" contest as it debated the future of the party after this month's general election defeat.
As the Democratic primary enters its final stages, one possible contest remains in which there are no opinion polls or past results to guide those looking for clues to the outcome.
It's one of a series of possible contests that we can see as the governor serves his term in office about who is going to make what decisions," High Point University political scientist Martin Kifer said.
Out of a possible two hundred and eighty contests leading up to his win in No. 281, the Bureau of Cartoon Caption Contest Statistics reports that he entered only a hundred and seven, which puts him in five hundred and sixty-ninth place out of 502,416 unique entrants, who have submitted a total of 1,595,506 captions.
