HONIARA, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Solomon Islands' Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has withdrawn from running for a new term and Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele has been nominated as his coalition's prime minister candidate, national broadcaster SIBC reported on Monday.
Manele has accepted his candidature for prime minister nominated by the newly founded Coalition for National Unity and Transformation (CNUT), which consists of the Ownership, Unity and Responsibility Party, the Peoples First Party and Kandere Party, SIBC reported.
Members of parliament will meet to elect the country's new prime minister on Thursday, Governor General of Solomon Islands David Vunagi said in a written notice. ■
