OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– The Israeli President Shimon Peres has asked Benyamin Netanyahu leader of the Likud party to form the next government.
Netanyahu accepted the assignment and announced this in a joint press conference with Peres in occupied Jerusalem on Friday.
Peres had met both Tzipi Livni leader of Kadima party and Benyamin Netanyahu leader of the Likud earlier on Friday.
Netanyahu said that he wanted to form a broad coalition government with Kadima but Livni rejected the idea.
Netanyahu however has the support of far right parties such as Yisrael Beiteinu lead by Aviddor Lieberman which came third in the latest Israeli elections as well as other extremist religious parties.
Observers however believe that any coalition government formed by Netanyahu will be a weak one.
