In the last election, four years ago, the council banned some reformists, but their bloc swept into office anyway.
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, which does not use the currency, argued that euro zone leaders were throttling economic growth in their bloc.
Sunnis do lead a few high-profile ministries but don't have nearly the clout they expected after their bloc won the most votes in the 2010 election.
Last Thursday, seven Iraqiya MPs defied their bloc leader and returned to parliament with a strong message: "Dialogue is the only solution".
Mr Herzog, for his part, has called off a deal with his ally Tzipi Livni to share the prime-ministerial term, with each taking two years, should their bloc of parties win enough seats.
Hundreds of their candidates have been disqualified by the government for "lacking Islamic authenticity", leaving their bloc able to contest in half the 290 seats in the Majlis, Iran's parliament.
Both men insisted that if they led their bloc to victory in the elections, they should become the next president of the EU executive, the European commission, from October.
He said, and I agree with him, that the relationship needs to be between Labour and the individual Labour-supporting members of trade unions rather than with the general secretaries and their bloc votes.
But Mr. Espada, Mr. Kruger and the third member of their bloc, Senator Rubén Díaz Sr .of the Bronx, have said publicly that Mr. Smith has already agreed, among other concessions, to make Mr. Espada the majority leader and Mr. Kruger the Senate finance chairman.
