A Superior Court judge has given the Waterbury faction of the Connecticut Independent Party control of the party, allowing it to cross-endorse major party candidates or to choose its own nominees for statewide office. But the Danbury faction, which lost in the latest court round, promises to appeal.

The two factions had been fighting for several years on which would control the state’s Independent Party, which has about 25,000 registered voters, making it Connecticut’s third-largest political party after the Democrats and Republicans.

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