Word: resigned
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...November - that would empower the people. And that includes the restoration of the judiciary. Pervez Musharraf has openly and vigorously held out that the PML-Q is his party. He has campaigned for Q... If Q fails to get a simple majority on the 18th, Musharraf must resign. He should admit defeat and resign. The election is a referendum on [Musharraf's] Q league...
...reveal widespread antipathy towards the President. The International Republican Institute reported that Musharraf's job approval rating had fallen to a new low of 15% at the end of January, compared with 72% disapproval. A second survey, conducted by Terror Free Tomorrow, found 70% of Pakistanis wanting Musharraf to resign immediately. And a BBC World Service poll has found that a majority of Pakistanis believe Musharraf's resignation will restore the country's stability...
Meanwhile, on Wednesday dozens of army reservists braved rainstorms to camp outside Barak's swanky Tel Aviv apartment demanding that he honor his earlier promise that Labor resign from Olmert's coalition after the Winograd report. But Barak is now hedging; polls show that in an early election, Barak would lose to Netanyahu. So for now, Barak will probably clutch his cabinet seat tight. The politicians and press will be sifting over the gritty details of the report during the next few days, but Olmert and his new enlarged team of media monitors - their ranks have swollen from four...
...results and assign blame for the handling of Israel's flawed 2006 war in Lebanon. And so, when they were handed a copy of the 617-page report today, Olmert and his aides frantically skimmed the document for damning remarks that might have forced the prime minister to resign. They had a single hour before the bloodhounds of the Israel press, along with Olmert's political enemies and the families of soldiers who died in the war, grabbed copies of the same document. But, as one relieved Olmert aide told TIME: "We couldn't hope for anything better than this...
...years since a popular uprising forced him to resign the presidency have not brought Indonesia quiet. The predominantly Muslim country's Islamic extremists, long repressed by Suharto's military, came roaring to life, some finding common cause with al-Qaeda, fomenting attacks not once but twice on Indonesia's paradaisical enclave of Bali - the last refuge of the islands' old Hindu gods...