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SHARE Palestinians protested on Friday and diplomats expressed disappointment over President Mahmoud Abbas s decision to postpone long-awaited elections. The votes were called after an agreement between Mr Abbas s secular Fatah movement, which controls the West Bank and its long-standing rival Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip coastal enclave. The Palestinian Central Elections Commission said it was suspending the election process after Mr Abbas s decision. Campaigning was supposed to begin on Friday. Hamas said the postponement was a coup against partnership and Mr Abbas would bear full responsibility for the decision and its consequences . Protesters in the West Bank political capital of Ramallah denounced the president s move. ....
Palestinian polls postponed until Jerusalem voting guaranteed: Abbas 219 RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, April 30, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Friday that elections had been postponed until there was a guarantee voting can take place in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, further delaying polls in a society which last voted in 2006. Addressing a meeting of Palestinian factions, Abbas said he had urged the international community to push Israel to allow campaigning and voting in east Jerusalem, an area annexed by the Jewish state in 1967 which Palestinians claim as their future capital. But Abbas said the vote could not go ahead because Israel had provided no assurances regarding Jerusalem ahead of the legislative and presidential polls called for May 22 and July 31 respectively. ....