Update On Israeli Election News:
The Israeli Government Dilemma
President Shimon Peres is expected to formally entrust Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu with building a coalition on Sunday, after making a last-ditch effort on Friday to persuade
Kadima leader Tzipi Livni to join a national-unity government.
Following 24 hours in which 65 MKs urged Peres to designate him to form a coalition, Netanyahu said that as soon as that happened, he would ask Livni and Labor chairman Ehud Barak to join a broad government under his leadership.
"A wide national-unity government is especially necessary in light of the major challenges Israel is facing from Iran, terror and the international economic crisis," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu said repeatedly during the campaign that not forming a national-unity government when he was prime minister from 1996-99 was his worst-ever political mistake.
But Livni left him no choice but to repeat it when she vowed to remain in the opposition.
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