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But if he wants us to believe that his speech and decision to
resign
are in the service of the country, and based on principle, then he needs to explain what that principle is.
Corruption and OccupationTEL AVIV – Police investigations, commissions of inquiry examining the errors committed during the Lebanon war of 2006, repugnance at former President Moshe Katsav’s alleged sex crimes, and now Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s announcement that, with charges of corruption swirling about him, he will
resign
in September: all of this suggests profound wounds in Israel’s moral tissue.
Given that President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has expressed his distaste for calling a new election, such a scenario could become likely if Merkel does not
resign
on her own.
Even Peru's most important newspaper, El Comercio , recently suggested that Toledo resign, leaving his first minister and cabinet to run the government.
But how to explain charges of "gross violations" by the Ak Zhol Party, the largest opposition group, or the decision by the Minister of Information, an Ak Zhol candidate, to
resign
in protest?
It is thus ironic that four of Macron’s 15 initially selected cabinet members – including one of the president’s closest advisers – have been forced to
resign
following reports of alleged misconduct or misuse of public funds, even before any judicial ruling.
A freshly appointed member of France’s Constitutional Council has also been forced to
resign
as well, after news reports alleging that he had employed his daughter in a fake job while serving in the Senate.
And yet this process still somehow cleared the four ministers who had to
resign
soon after taking office.
The “soft coup” of 1997, whereby a democratically elected government was forced by the military to resign, left deep scars in Turkish society.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s decision to make good on his promise to
resign
if voters rejected his government’s proposed constitutional reforms has thrown Italian politics into disarray, and an early general election is likely.
And, whereas Egyptian protesters of all types found common ground in insisting that President Hosni Mubarak resign, Bahrainis will find it almost impossible to agree on a rallying cry.
While he could remain a board member until 2020, he would surely
resign
immediately if he were not re-appointed.
In the last few weeks, attention has focused on whether Rumsfeld himself should
resign
or be fired.
It is not clear what this would accomplish in light of the Secretary's declaration that he would
resign
not as an expression of guilt but only if he can no longer be "effective."
Some ministers resign, but there is no attack against institutions.
The same month, Italy will hold a constitutional referendum to reform the Senate, and Renzi has vowed to
resign
if it doesn’t pass.
But both leaders had to resign, only three days apart, in November 2011.
Hariri was isolated even from his bodyguards and forced to
resign.
Guatemala's former president, Otto Pérez Molina, was forced to
resign
and was subsequently jailed for corruption.
Indonesia’s House Speaker Setya Novanto was also forced to resign, after he was caught attempting to extort money from a subsidiary of the mining company Freeport-McMoRan.
Dalli, the first individual EU commissioner to be forced to resign, has professed his innocence and even vowed to sue the European Commission, intensifying a dispute between the Maltese politician and his former boss, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso.
In an interview with the Brussels-based newspaper EU Observer, Dalli insisted that the Commission was “lying” about the events surrounding his departure, and that he was forced to
resign
in an illegal manner.
Barroso, he maintained, had read aloud the results of the investigation before demanding that Dalli either
resign
or face dismissal.
But public opinion – volatile and angry – calls for both to resign: a public-opinion poll conducted after the Commission published its report indicated that only 14% of Israelis believe that Olmert should keep his job, while less than 11% support Peretz.
They demand that the government dissolve the current legislature immediately, and that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva
resign
because he was never elected and is viewed as a front man for the traditional anti-Thaksin monied groups.
Islam versus Asia's Chinese DiasporaWhen Malaysia's prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamed, recently announced that he intended to resign, Malaysians of Chinese descent joined Mahathir's Malay party loyalists in demanding that he reconsider.
But Italian voters’ rejection of constitutional reforms in a referendum has not only led Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to resign; it has dealt another blow to a crisis-ridden European Union.
But were the EU to
resign
itself to mere observer status in Lebanon, the UN and Europe would lose all credibility.
Toshiba CEO Hisao Tanaka and other senior executives have had to resign; the interim CEO apologized to Abe’s office;Norio Sasaki, the company’s vice chairman and former CEO, has quit his posts on government panels; and the former chairman of Toshiba’s audit committee has stepped down from the government accounting panel.
What the lively Pakistani media dubbed “memogate” forced Haqqani to
resign
and enabled the Supreme Court to assert its authority by deciding to investigate the matter.
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