"After I'm elected Kadima
chairman I intend to establish a unity government by the beginning of November," Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said Sunday.
Speaking at a municipal election rally in Kiryat Ono, Mofaz said "Israel does not need general elections at a time when it is facing existential challenges."
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, the leading candidate to win the September 17 Kadima primaries, was greeted warmly when she entered the convention hall.
"Kadima believes in an ethical leadership; leadership that delivers," she said. "Each and every one of us came here to say that we believe
in what Kadima was meant to be, and now we are making the change that will allow us to fix what went wrong."
Kadima members Dalia Itzik and Tzachi Hanegbi are leading an initiative to have the chairmanship candidates sign a document stating that they would not quit the party should it lose the primary elections.
Earlier Livni told CNN that most of Israel's political parties will be able to join a newly-formed coalition with herself as prime minister, adding that such a government would send a message of unity both domestically and to the international community.
The FM said she believed Kadima would win the next general elections.
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