Palestinian president decides on his own to postpone elections The rationale was that Israel refused to allow residents of East Jerusalem to participate. A man uses his phone to film a televised speech by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas regarding planned Palestinian elections at a coffee shop in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on April 29, 2021. Abbas said he was postponing the vote. - HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images
April 30, 2021
While he appears to have received the support of the majority of an unelected group of Palestinians that are referred to as the leadership, it seems 86-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has unilaterally decided to postpone elections. Abbas said the night of April 29 that the vote was postponed because of Israel’s refusal to allow residents of East Jerusalem to participate, but most of those who were running for the May 22 legislative elections he had called for in a January set of presidential decrees wa
Barghouti and Qudwa give Abbas ultimatum for accepting electoral list
A poster depicting the portrait of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti during a protest on 14 April 2015 [Shadi Hatem/Apaimages] March 2, 2021 at 11:15 am
Senior Fatah leaders Marwan Barghouti and Nasser Al-Qudwa have given Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas until 5 March to accept their electoral list, Lebanon s
Al-Akbar reported on Monday. Abbas is also the head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Fatah movement.
Barghouti has been in an Israeli prison since 2002, while Al-Qudwa is a cousin of the late Yasser Arafat. According to senior Fatah sources, they have proposed a list to Abbas that includes young people and active Fatah members who have been effectively neutralised by Abbas due to their resistance against the Israeli occupation.
2021-01-06 16:36:06 GMT2021-01-07 00:36:06(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Sanaa Kamal
RAMALLAH, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Hamas movement and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah movement try to put differences aside to hold general elections in the Palestinian territories, Palestinian political experts and observers said.
On Saturday, Ismail Haniyeh, the politburo chief of Hamas, addressed Abbas in an official letter, confirming that Hamas was ready to end the internal divisions and hold a general election.
Abbas welcomed the gesture and said he would support the initiative of ending divisions, building partnership, and accomplishing national unity.
He also invited Hana Nasser, chairman of the Palestinian Central Elections Commission, to discuss the procedures for issuing the decrees related to holding the elections.
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