What is the meaning of second party leaders in the following sentence?
. Yet, the Likud plus these do not ensure that the figure of 61 can be reached and this is where Mr. Netanyahu is an issue. Parties led by second-rank leaders such as Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz or Gideon Sa’ar are opposed to him as he is the first Israeli Prime Minister on trial for three criminal cases — bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
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What are second party leaders?
Actually in the text second-rank leaders is used not second party leaders and the meaning is different and more easily located in the dictionary.
second-rank, means second tier or level. Second-tier is used to describe an organization, etc. that is not among the biggest, most successful, or most important of its type:
rank noun [C/U] (POSITION) a position in relation to others higher or lower, showing the importance or authority of the person having it: Ref CED Rank
tier noun [ C ] one of several levels of importance, quality, etc.: Ref CED Tier
second-tier adjective [ before noun ] used to describe a product, organization, etc. that is not among the biggest, most successful, or most important of its type: Ref CED Second-tier
