International as well as Palestinian opposition is expected to any move to block the elections.
Wednesday 28/04/2021
Candidates demonstrate outside the Palestinian Central Elections Commission headquarters in Gaza, April 27, 2021, during a protest against the possibility of cancelling the Palestinian elections. Sign in the centre reads, “no elections without Jerusalem.
RAMALLAH - Palestinian sources said President Mahmoud Abbas could find in Israel’s refusal to allow voting in Jerusalem the right justification to cancel scheduled Palestinian elections.
Such a move would allow him to avoid bitter setbacks in legislative votes including the strong rise of rival lists within the Fatah movement, as well as the possibly poor performance of his divided movement in front of Hamas.