Instead, he will devote his final months to pressing for the "much needed, long overdue reform programme" unencumbered by the need to lobby over his own future.
A pact with opposition parties in the lower chamber, where Mr Cartes's Partido Colorado lacks a majority, will allow the government to press ahead with a programme emphasising overdue infrastructure investment.
Gerhard Schroder, the German chancellor, said he and fellow leaders planned to meet Mr Prodi "as soon as possible"—in the first week of April, perhaps to agree on a programme for long-overdue reforms to the tasks and management of the institution Mr Prodi would inherit.In this section It disagrees about Kosovo.
After months of drama in the eurozone and its own solvency hanging by a thread, Greece reacted with euphoria on Tuesday at the news that international creditors had decided to not only revitalise its rescue programme, releasing long-overdue aid, but cut €40bn (£32bn) from its debt mountain.
"The review of our curriculum is overdue.
Despite these concerns, the national dental pilot programme may provide a long overdue opportunity to improve NHS primary care dental services for the benefit of patients, dental professionals and ultimately, tax payers.
Therefore, education and regular screening programmes targeting these athletes are overdue.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of Ofsted, the British government's schools watchdog, has fought for more powers to examine academy chains an overdue step.Meanwhile the fate of the free-school programme looks less certain.
Meanwhile, there has been a long-overdue flurry of activity in the Fed's programme for restarting the securitisation market.
Two inquiry reports are currently overdue at the BBC, on editorial decisions first to suppress a programme correctly exposing the late Jimmy Savile as a sex abuser, and secondly to put out a programme that falsely accused the former Tory treasurer Alistair McAlpine of similar crimes.
