Al-Quds city (JERUSALEM) -- Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni eked out avictory Thursday in a surprisingly tight race to replacePrime Minister Ehud Olmert as head of Israel's governingparty, and said she would immediately turn to the task oftrying to build a new government. Livni, won 43.1 percent of the vote in the Kadima Party primary elections, compared with 42 percent for Shaul Mofaz, a former military chiefand defense minister, in a contest with far-reachingimplications for peacemaking with the Palestinians andSyria. The official results were much closer than thedouble-digit victory predicted by exit polls Wednesdaynight. «The national responsibility (bestowed) by the publicmakes me approach this job with great awe,» Livni saidThursday morning, shortly after the results were announced, according to a report of the Associated Press.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/591191