Snap elections to be called in Israel

Israeli FM Tzipi Livni informed President Shimon Peres on Sunday of her failure to form a new coalition, Haaretz daily reports.

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Israeli FM Tzipi Livni informed President Shimon Peres on Sunday of her failure to form a new coalition, Haaretz daily reports. The head of the ruling Kadima also informed him that she has decided that Israel should hold a general election. Snap elections to be called in Israel "I'm not willing to be blackmailed, either diplomatically or in terms of the budget, and therefore, I will go to elections," Livni told Haaretz on Saturday night. "The other possibility was for me to capitulate to extortion. But a government is supposed to advance processes and represent the good of the country, not just to survive in this or that coalition. I promised to exhaust efforts to form a government, and that's what I did." Her decision means that elections will probably be held in February or March. The next parliamentary poll had been scheduled for 2010. Following her win in the race for the party leadership in September, Livni had 90 days to put together a government, but has conceded that she cannot do so effectively. The ultra-Orthodox Shas party announced Friday that it would not join a Livni coalition, citing differences over the future of Jerusalem in the political process, and its demand for increased welfare benefits.

Snap elections to be called in Israel

"I'm not willing to be blackmailed, either diplomatically or in terms of the budget, and therefore, I will go to elections," Livni told Haaretz on Saturday night.

"The other possibility was for me to capitulate to extortion. But a government is supposed to advance processes and represent the good of the country, not just to survive in this or that coalition. I promised to exhaust efforts to form a government, and that's what I did."

Her decision means that elections will probably be held in February or March. The next parliamentary poll had been scheduled for 2010.

Following her win in the race for the party leadership in September, Livni had 90 days to put together a government, but has conceded that she cannot do so effectively.

The ultra-Orthodox Shas party announced Friday that it would not join a Livni coalition, citing differences over the future of Jerusalem in the political process, and its demand for increased welfare benefits.

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