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Livni to split Center-Left with new centrist party
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| Author | GIL HOFFMAN |
| Media | Newspaper - Jerusalem Post |
| News Date | Thursday, November 22, 2012 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The splintered Center-Left will become even more divided at the beginning of next week when former foreign minister Tzipi Livni is expected to form a new party with allies from Kadima and new candidates who scored well in polls.
Livni's list will reportedly be called the “National Responsibility Party,” using the name that Livni suggested for Kadima when it was formed at former prime minister Ariel Sharon's Negev ranch in November 2005. The party will attempt to provide the “different kind of politics” Livni envisioned for Kadima before it became enveloped in the same internal corruption that plagued the Likud central committee.
To that end, politicians involved in legal troubles like former prime minister Ehud Olmert and former minister Haim Ramon will not be on the list. Olmert is expected to announce that he will not run in the January 22 election at a press conference on Sunday.
Instead the list will feature Maj.-gen. (res.) Shlomo Yanai, the respected former chairman of Teva Pharmaceuticals, who built up the company's annual earnings from $8.4 billion to $22 billion in five years. A former OC Southern Command, Yanai's experience dealing with the Gaza Strip could be a key asset for the party following Operation Pillar of Defense.
The list will also include Israel Space Agency chairman Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael, who is also a retired major-general, a professor, and briefly a Kadima MK; sucker tent protest leader Boaz Nol, and former ambassador to France Danny Shek.
The only MKs Livni intends to take from Kadima are her allies Yoel Hasson, Shlomo Molla, Orit Adato, Orit Zuaretz, and Robert Tibaev. Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, who headed the government committee that responded to the July 2011 tent protests, had been talked about as a possible candidate, but he did not leave his government post in time in order to be legally permitted to run. |
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