Livni: Coalition Deal will Let Us Push Our Views

Tzipi Livni spoke to her party, Hatnua, on Wednesday, less than one day after the party officially joined Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition. “Entering the coalition will allow us to promote our views regarding the promotion of the peace process,” Livni declared during a faction meeting. Hatnua will also help prevent “the extremism we saw in the last Knesset,” she added. Livni said changes to the political map justified Hatnua’s participation in the coalition despite her refusal as the head of Kadima in the last Knesset to join Netanyahu.