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World Jewish News
Livni: Only I can form unity government
25.01.2009
Kadima leader and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Sunday asserted that she was the only leading candidate capable of forming a broad national unity government if elected.
"I believe that after the elections I will be the only one who can offer a national unity government that includes [Likud leader Binyamin] Netanyahu and [Labor leader Ehud] Barak on each side, because we are in the center," Livni told high school students in Jerusalem.
"A centrist party is not a vacuum, some kind of gap between the Left and the Right. Being centrist means promoting the goals and interests of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state while simultaneously promoting political and security processes," the foreign minister said.
"We need to advance peace with the moderate elements and then we can hit Hamas and enlist the world to prevent a nuclear Iran."
Livni went on to say that Iran was "not only Israel's problem" and expressed confidence that the free world understood the nature of the threat emanating from the Islamic Republic.
The Labor party dismissed as "baseless" Livni's assertion that only she was capable of forming a broad coalition, "especially considering the fact that she failed to form a government when all of the circumstances were on her side."
It may be, Labor said, that "Livni is already sending out feelers to join a coalition with Likud."
Источник: JPost
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