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Olmert 'will step down this month'

Updated on 11 September 2008

Source PA News

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will step down immediately after his party chooses a successor this month, a confidant said.

The announcement means that Israel could find itself racing to form a new government in as little as a week and quashes speculation the Israeli leader would try to linger in office for months.

It also raises new questions about Washington's stated goal of brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement by the end of the year.

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