"Kadima messed up once and I will not let it mess up again," Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Sunday at a Kadima activists' meeting. "Kadima can remain the largest party and I would like to take the responsibility of leading it," she said.

"The public is fed up with politicians. This should worry us all," Livni warned. "The threats exist," she added, "we need to make decisions and to set the values that our country was created upon."