Abbas postpones parliamentary elections
Published: 04.30.21 , 08:50 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday postponed planned parliamentary elections amid a dispute over voting in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and splits in his Fatah party.
Abbas, 85, blamed Israel for uncertainty about whether it would allow the legislative election to proceed in Jerusalem as well as in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The decision came three months after he announced the first national elections for 15 years in what was widely seen as a response to criticism of the democratic legitimacy of Palestinian institutions, including his own presidency.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday postponed planned parliamentary elections amid a dispute over voting in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and splits in his Fatah party. Abbas, 85, blamed Israel for uncertainty about whether it would allow the legislative elections to proceed in Jerusalem as well as in the occupied West…
After decades of this stuff, the PLO has long ago run out of new tricks. All its tricks are old, the State Department, the EU, and the media just politely pretend not to notice when the terrorists pretending to be a country do exactly the thing every pro-Israel activists says they ll do. In this case, that s postpone the first election in 15 years while blaming the postponement on Israel. Washington would not object to a Palestinian Authority decision to postpone the legislative elections set for next month, an unnamed US source told the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper Friday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday postponed planned parliamentary elections amid a dispute over voting in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and splits in his Fatah party.
The delay likely to draw intense domestic criticism, with Abbas and his allies weakened by challengers from within his own divided Fatah party as Hamas spokesperson criticizes the move claiming responsibility is on Abbas's faction