Livni accuses Netanyahu of using "gutter politics"

Israel's centrist Kadima party, led by former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, has accused the prime minister of using “gutter politics” in his proposal to give the party cabinet seats.

Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal for Kadima to join the broad-based coalition “cynically uses threats,” she said, adding that the offer has not split her party.

In rejecting the proposal, Livni accused Netanyahu of using “gutter politics,” saying he had made his offer after “he failed to split Kadima despite his efforts to do so.”

“The prime minister's proposal as relayed to the Kadima chairman does not express an honest desire for such partnership,” MP Yohanan Plasner told reporters after Kadima's parliamentary faction unanimously rejected the offer.

“A unity government has many advantages, but a national unity should not be an empty expression, but a commitment for a real partnership with a joint vision and principles and an agreed way to materialize these principles,” he said.

Netanyahu met Livni twice over the past few days after inviting her to join his government and form a coalition “to face the national and international challenges facing Israel today.”

Kadima, with 28 MPs, is the largest party in the 120-member Israeli parliament.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114860§ionid=351020202.