| Talkback | |
|
Title: | Mofaz "Israel does not need general elections now" | |||
| |||||
| Name: | Joseph.E | | |||
| |||||
| City: | Givatayim | State: | Israel | | |
| A interpretation of Mofaz statement could be in the following ... After the dust settled on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert`s surprise announcement Wednesday evening that he will resign from office after Kadima`s leadership primary on September 17, the main question is, What possessed him to act as he did? Olmert did not actually resign from office in the normal sense of the term. That is, he`s not planning to leave office any time soon. What Olmert did was force Israel into a long period of governmental instability. According to the elections law, when a prime minister announces his resignation, his government is immediately transformed into a transition government that will remain in power until either Olmert`s successor forms a governing coalition or until the winner of the next general election forms a governing coalition. If Olmert`s successor forms a new governing coalition after the September 17 primary, Israelis won`t go to the polls until March 2010. But if Olmert`s replacement as Kadima head is unable to form a coalition, Israel will have a general election by March 2009 at the latest. In the latter scenario, Olmert`s transition government will remain in power until the winners of that election form a governing coalition. And that could take up to three more months. So far from leaving office anytime soon, Olmert will remain in power at least three more months, and perhaps for as long as 10 months. More @ http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2008/08/kadimas_legacy_of_nothingness.asp Kadima`s legacy of nothingness August 1, 2008, 5:11 PM |
| |  |
|
 |
|
 |
