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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Netanyahu woos Livni in secret talks AFP - Monday, March 16 JERUSALEM (AFP) - - Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu is holding new talks with centrist Tzipi Livni in a last-ditch effort to form a broad government instead of a narrow right-wing coalition, officials said on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT Livni, the outgoing foreign minister and leader of the centrist Kadima party, had rejected joining a cabinet with Netanyahu late last month because of his hardline positions over the peace talks with Palestinians. But the two held a secret meeting during the week that lasted into the early hours and were due to meet again on Sunday, officials in Netanyahu's Likud party said. "Netanyahu and Livni met on Wednesday for new talks to examine whether Kadima would join a national unity government headed by Likud," one official said. Yet the gaps between the two bitter rivals appeared to remain large despite the revived talks. The two main sticking points are Kadima's demands for Netanyahu and Livni to take turns as prime minister and for the new government to sign up to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, media reports said. Netanyahu rejects the idea of a Palestinian state in the short term, saying that economic conditions in the occupied West Bank must be improved before talks are conducted on any other issues. "Aides to both sides said that the chances of this initiative bearing fruit remain slim for the time being," the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot said of the prospects for a coalition deal. Netanyahu is widely believed to want to preside over a broad-based government that would have a better chance of survival in the notoriously tumultuous world of Israeli politics. In the meanwhile, Likud representatives continued on Sunday talks with the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party in an effort to conclude a coalition deal in the coming days, officials on both sides said. Bibi, as he is known in Israel, wants to avoid a repetition of the scenario in 1996, when he became the nation's youngest prime minister only to watch his right-wing government collapse ahead of time because far-right parties quit over deals he struck with the Palestinians under US pressure. Although Livni's centrist Kadima party won 28 seats in a snap February 10 election -- one more than Netanyahu's right-wing Likud -- the hawkish former premier was tasked with forming the next government because he is believed to have a better chance of forging a majority in the 120-seat parliament. After Livni and the centre-left Labour party rejected his entreaties to join a new government, Netanyahu was left with fellow right-wing parties that together with his Likud hold 65 seats. An aide told Yediot that Netanyahu had made new overtures to Livni after receiving "insane demands" from far-right potential coalition partners. Late on Wednesday, he and his controversial wife Sarah came to the Tel Aviv home of Livni and her husband, Naftali Spitzer, with the two couples dining and talking until 4:30 am, reports said. Some observers warned that Netanyahu's overtures to Livni could be a way to pressure right-wing parties to drop some of their demands by showing them that he had other options. "Like a gunshot in the last act of a play... a final attempt to create a Likud-Kadima coalition looks inevitable," the daily Haaretz newspaper said. "Whether it ends with a marriage or a cessation of bargaining by partners on the right... Netanyahu might come out ahead." Netanyahu is hoping to present his cabinet to parliament by the end of the week in order to avoid having to ask President Shimon Peres for a two-week extension to form a government. With the extension, he would have until April 3 to form a cabinet. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Cheney going high-tech and driving a carAP - 49 minutes ago Connecticut's Gold Coast braces for Jerry SpringerAP - 52 minutes ago Bomb kills four NATO soldiers in AfghanistanReuters - 58 minutes ago Cleopatra 'was part-African'AFP - 1 hour 4 minutes ago Burkina Faso: 15 dead in canoe accidentAP - 1 hour 6 minutes ago Enlarge Photo Effigies of Tzipi Livni (L), Benjamin Netanyahu (C), and Ehud Barak (R) at a parade to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim on March 10, 2009 on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. 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