Olmert to carry on as acting leader

Attorney General Meni Mazuz is expected to notify Ehud Olmert today that he will continue to serve as acting prime minister through Israel’s elections, the Justice Ministry said, as Israeli leader Ariel Sharon remained in a coma.

Mazuz will continue to define Sharon as temporarily, rather than permanently incapacitted because doctors treating the prime minister at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital have not yet offered a prognosis, the Haaretz daily reported today.