** FILE ** A Likud supporter carrying red roses walks next to posters of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sitting on the floor of a Likud party office in downtown Jerusalem in this Monday, Jan. 27, 2003 file photo. Sharon on Monday asked Israel's president to dissolve parliament, pushing for a March election after deciding to leave his hardline Likud Party and to form a new centrist political movement. Sharon's decision to leave Likud, the party he helped found in 1973, redraws Israel's political map, formalizes his transformation from hardliner to moderate and increases chances of progress in peacemaking with the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)