AMMAN: Former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad has announced he will submit a list of independent candidates in the May 22 elections.
Fayyad’s decision was revealed in a front-page interview on Tuesday in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds.
Speaking to the newspaper’s editor, Mohammad Abu Libdeh, Fayyad said that his list “will be of independent faces that have had a presence in Palestinian life.”
He called for a national effort to strengthen Palestinian steadfastness with authority and justice.
Fayyad, a former International Monetary Fund official and finance minister, said that the rules of the game must change. “We need to insist on our right for equal treatment and we should stop expecting salvation through Washington.”