Israel's ruling party starts to elect Olmert's successor
17/9/2008 17:15
The primary of Israel's ruling Kadima party began this morning, with four
current ministers competing to succeed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as party chief
and possibly as premier.
Polls are scheduled to last 12 hours from 10 a.m.
(0700 GMT) till 10 p.m. local time (1900 GMT), and some 74,000 registered
members of the centrist party are eligible to vote at 114 polling stations in 93
different locations across the Jewish state.
Initial results are not expected
till early tomorrow, as the voting is not computerized.
The current prime
minister, embroiled by a series of police probes, has announced that he would
not contend in the race and would step down as soon as his replacement is chosen
among Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, Public
Security Minister Avi Dichter and Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit.
Xinhua
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