Palestinian Prez calls for dialogue over unity govt
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RAMALLAH, Jan. 28, 2020 (Xinhua) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference following the Palestinian leadership meeting, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Jan. 28, 2020. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday an. Image Source: IANS News
Ramallah, May 3 : Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for a new round of intra-national dialogue to discuss the possibility of forming a unity government, his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said.
Palestinian factions will start soon an intra-national dialogue regarding the formation of a unity government that will bear its responsibilities in the coming stage , Xinhua news agency quoted the spokesman as saying in a statement.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has postponed the Parliamentary elections next month. “Faced with this difficult situation, we decided to postpone the date of holding legislative elections until the participation of Jerusalem and its people in these elections is guaranteed,” Abbas said. “There will be no concession on Jerusalem and no concession on our people in Jerusalem exercising their democratic rights”.
Critics say that Abbas was apprehensive about an electoral defeat and has used the issue of East Jerusalem as a pretext. Hamas was expected to perform well. “The decision to delay the elections is opposed to our national consensus and popular opinion.
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Friday’s decision by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to “postpone” the upcoming elections, which would have been the first in 15 years, will deepen Palestinian division and could signal the collapse of the Fatah movement, at least in its current form.
Unlike the last Palestinian parliamentary elections of 2006, the big story this time was not the Fatah-Hamas rivalry. Many rounds of talks between representatives of Palestine’s two largest political parties had already sorted out many of the details regarding the now-delayed elections, which were scheduled to begin on May 22.
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