Breaking: Israeli Prime Minister Announces Resignation
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JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel Radio says Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told his Cabinet that he will resign.
The report did not say when Olmert would submit his official letter of resignation to President Shimon Peres.
Olmert made the announcement just days after his governing Kadima Party elected Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to replace him as party chairman. Olmert is being forced from office by a corruption scandal.
Olmert’s departure will clear the way for Livni to try to cobble together a new coalition government.
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