Kadima and Labor set to form partnership

At a press conference this afternoon, Kadima Achora leader Ehud Olmert and Labor party leader Amir Peretz announced that they plan to form a government. Peretz will recommend to President Moshe Katzav that Olmert be entrusted with the task of forming a governing coalition.Olmert said that guidelines would be written dictating the coalition's policies, and anyone who agreed to the guidelines