Peres praises Livni, says she 'stuck to her principles'

President Shimon Peres praised Kadima leader Tzipi Livni on Sunday, and said that she "stuck to her principles," in the process of trying to put together a coalition government. Livni met with Peres at Beit Hanassi in Jerusalem to inform him that she had failed to form a coalition, and recommended holding early elections in the next 90 days.