以色列总统佩雷斯邀请右翼派领导人内塔尼亚胡将组建下届以色列政府。
在总统办公室举行的宣布仪式上，内塔尼亚胡接受了组建执政联盟的邀请。他呼吁温和派的对手、外交部长利夫尼和国防部长巴拉克和他一道参加“广泛的全国团结政府”。
利夫尼曾经希望当总理。她没表现出什么意愿参加内塔尼亚胡的政府，她表示她将率领前进党成为政府的反对派。
内塔尼亚胡将有6个星期的时间组阁。如果利夫尼拒绝加入联合政府，内塔尼亚胡很可能会组建一个由民主主义和宗教党派组成的联盟，并且在同巴勒斯坦人举行的可能的和平谈判上采取强硬得多的立场。
Israeli President Shimon Peres has asked right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government.
In a televised ceremony at the president’s office, Mr. Netanyahu accepted the invitation to form a ruling coalition. He called on his moderate rivals, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, to join him in what he called “a broad national unity government.”
Livni, who had hoped to become prime minister herself, has shown little inclination to join Mr. Netanyahu’s government and has indicated that she will likely take her Kadima party into opposition.
Mr. Netanyahu will have six weeks to put together a government. If Livni refuses to join him, he will most likely form a coalition of nationalist and religious parties that take a much more hard-line approach to possible peace talks with the Palestinians.