Kadima rejects Likud call to form Israel Govt

Israel: The governing Kadima party leader Tzipi Livni rejected on Friday an invitation by the rightwing Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu to join the new Israeli government, a decision that leaves the future coalition in a weak situation.

Livni, still foreign minister and leader of the group that leads the outgoing government alliance, met again with Netanyahu, a conservative ex prime minister, whose hard line towards the Palestinians distances him from the self-defined center governing party.

According to the diplomat, prefers to be in the opposition, considering that her main rival in the elections on February 10 declined to promise that the platform of his executive would include the formula of two States to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Meanwhile, Livni, who has been so far the leader of the negotiating team for peace with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), joins the US stance of seeking a solution to the main conflict in the Middle East, with the creation of a Palestinian independent State.

Proportionality of that system contributed to the defeat of the still foreign against Netanyahu, although she won more votes.

Tel Aviv, Prensa Latina