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Abbas Quits PLO Leadership Ahead Of Internal Election by Nobody: 7:36am On Aug 24, 2015 |
Palestinian president Mahmoud
Abbas resigned Saturday as head of the
Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive
Committee in a bid to force new elections for
the top body, an official said.
Wassel Abu Yussef said that more than half of
the 18-member committee had also stepped
down.
“The resignation of the president of the
executive committee Mahmud Abbas and more
than half of its members has created a legal
vacuum, and therefore the Palestine National
Council has been asked to meet in one month
to elect a new executive committee,” Yussef
told AFP.
Yussef added, however, that the resignations
will take effect only when the PNC meets. The
PNC, or Palestinian parliament, has 740
members who live in the Palestinian territories
and in the diaspora. It has not met in nearly 20
years.
Yussef said that before the resignations were
announced, the executive committee elected
chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat as its
secretary general. That move came after Abbas
suspended another key member, Yasser Abed
Rabbo, as secretary general. It was not
immediately clear why Rabbo had been
sidelined.
Source:www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/795836 |
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