Israeli PM-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu Given More Time to Form New Government

Israel’s Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has been granted a two-week extension to form a new government after meeting with President Shimon Peres to discuss the proposed make-up of his coalition.

Netanyahu will now have until April 3 to form the new government or he may be forced to form a coalition with a smaller group of hard-line, right-wing and religious parties.

The Likud party leader told Peres that he was still holding hope that he could bring in the more centrist Kadima party to the coalition. Kadima actually held a slight advantage in the Feb. 10 election but Peres said Netanyahu stood a better chance at forming the new government.

Netanyahu’s efforts to bring Kadima in to the coalition have been unsuccessful thus far as their leader and Israel’s current Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has refused to compromise her party’s position on Palestine. Kadima has been in favor of negotiations with Palestinians while Likud as well as the hard-line parties favor a tougher stance against Palestinians and more specifically Hamas.

Livni would likely retain her position as Foreign Minister if Kadima were to join the coalition yet she has pledged to provide a strong oppositional voice against the coalition if it were made up of hard-line parties.

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