Former foreign minister Tzipi Livni intended to plan
strategy for how to maximize what the three centrist parties could
receive in coalition negotiations with Prime Minister Netanyahu,
in the so far unsuccessful tripartite talks with Labor head Shelly Yacimovich and
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid.
Sources close to Livni told the Jerusalem Post that she she did not intend to discuss what portfolios
the parties would demand if they joined the coalition together or
whether she would ask for a rotation in the Prime Minister's Office
between Netanyahu and the leaders of one of the parties.
But
Livni does intend to raise such issues in further talks with Lapid and
Yacimovich following the January 22 election, especially if the three
parties together win more seats than the joint list of Likud and Yisrael
Beitenu.
"If the three parties come to Netanyahu together after
the election, it's a whole new ballgame," a source close to Livni said.
"We would be a force that can bargain for our agenda in building a
stable coalition with Likud and our parties of 75 MKs."
