No progress at latest Likud-Kachol Lavan session

The Likud and Kachol Lavan negotiating teams talked for two hours on Sunday without breaking through to common ground on a national unity government. Likud blames its rival’s rejection of the President’s proposal of a parity format for a broad-based government and an empowered vice prime minister. Kachol Lavan wants Likud to forego its 55-member bloc and Binyamin Netanyahu’s lead role, although the president has awarded him the first post-election mandate for an attempt to form a viable government.