In the 1972 general elections MSI joined with another right-wing party, the Italian Democratic Party of Monarchical Unity, to form an alliance known as the National Right (Destra Nazionale; DN).
It created a presidency council in Tripoli that was supposed to form a unity government, and the house of representatives in eastern Libya was supposed to approve the unity government, but it has yet to do so.
The two sides were supposed to form a unity government.
Mr. Sharansky had been pushing Mr. Barak to form a unity government with the rightist Likud Party.
The PPP and PML-N have the numbers to form a unity government.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh's offer to form a unity government failed to quell the unrest.
Move increases the likelihood of an agreement to form a unity government.
He could also ask the leaders of the two largest parties to form a unity government.
Previously he brought the Labor Party in to form a unity government, and he would like to do so again.
Mr. Sharon faces opposition within Likud to his plan to form a unity government that includes the opposition Labor Party.
