The Labor Party central committee will convene at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds on Sunday to adopt the proposal of new party chairman Ehud Barak to leave Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition if Olmert does not quit by the final Winograd Report's expected release in September or October.
The central committee decided on May 18 to reconvene three weeks after the June 12 chairmanship election to vote on leaving the coalition. Barak made a commitment during his election campaign to take Labor out of the government in a May 8 speech at Kibbutz Sdot Yam and at a June 6 press conference in which MK Ophir Paz-Pines endorsed Barak.
An official spokesman for Barak said he intended to pass a proposal to leave the government that he drafted with Paz-Pines, to honor his commitments to Paz-Pines and keep his election promise. But he said it was impossible to predict the circumstances in September or October and whether they might obligate Labor to remain in the coalition.
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