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...Olmert would not. She will have to contend with the ego of Labor leader Ehud Barak, a medaled ex-general and former Prime Minister who finds it difficult to take orders from Livni, a relative newcomer to Israeli politics. Experts say that Barak wants Livni to give Labor better cabinet posts and may want Olmert's 2009 budget rewritten. Livni has one advantage: polls show that in an early general election, Labor under Barak would take a beating, so he is likely to sign up with...
Olmert's last official cabinet meeting on Sunday had a touch of the surreal: at first the Premier chatted about Wall Street's woes and Israel's basketball win over the Czech team before announcing offhandedly that he was resigning. Several hours later he dropped his resignation letter off at the President's residence. The normally loquacious Olmert summed up his resignation in two sentences. Peres later said, "I respect the dignified manner in which [Olmert] is transferring authority...
...Hizballah, and his popularity plunged even further when police said they had uncovered evidence to indict Olmert for suspected fraud and bribery. The attorney general has yet to issue the indictment, and Olmert's lawyers say he is innocent. Nevertheless, his long career in politics, from Jerusalem mayor to cabinet minister to Prime Minister, appears to be finished. As Haaretz editorialized: "His personal conduct, which reflected his hedonism and greed, shadowed his performance as Prime Minister." It's now up to Livni to see if she can create a new government from the remains of Olmert's tattered legacy...
...hand over the reins of government. Aso's rise signals the LDP's intent to reinvigorate its image and ride A wave of public support, typical for new prime ministers, into the general election. If those elections are held in late October as expected, Aso, 68, and his new Cabinet will have roughly one month to convince voters that the party is paying attention to their needs while it addresses contentious issues such as the supplementary budget, which could include tax cuts for low income Japanese...
...procedural grounds. Most damaging to Mbeki were Judge Chris Nicholson's remarks that he found Zuma's complaints of political interference in his case to be plausible. Nicholson made it clear that his judgment in no way exonerates Zuma, but he also accused Mbeki and members of his cabinet of having improperly intervened to ensure that Zuma was prosecuted. "It's quite clear that the purpose of the decision is to prevent the NPA [National Prosecuting Authority] from prosecuting Zuma," Steven Friedman, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy in Johannesburg said in a radio interview on Saturday...