The Labour Party a key member of the coalition had been in the grips of a struggle: members who were critical of the government's handling of the peace process pushed for the party to leave the coalition, while the Barak-led faction was generally supportive of the Netanyahu government.
The two factions are generally thought to rotate power between them, but that may be under strain.
Lebanon's largest political factions are generally split into Sunni and Shia camps that are closely allied to opposing Middle East powers.
And since he is generally reviled by the Tea Party faction, his prospects look decidedly lousy.
He is thus associated with Jiang's faction, sometimes referred to as the "elitists," that is generally known to favor a model that emphasizes free trade, economic development in the coastal regions, and export-led growth.
Rodrigo Abeja, one of the organizers, said help was being sought from a breakaway faction of Mexico's teachers union, which has years of experience convening large protests and is generally aligned with the country's leftist presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Whereas Labour periodically breaks into warring dogmatic factions, Conservatives are generally united by a broad set of common principles including a sceptical attitude to grand political schemes.
It is a first, small step forward for Libya's government, whose control over the country's splintering factions has been generally weak.
Battles within the Party resemble the struggles of medieval barons more than they do anything we would recognize as party politics, complete with kidnappings, changes of alliance, dynastic regionalism, and factions that are generally more dependent on personal influence than ideological affinity.
" 'Faction' is a horrible word.
