Posted on 08/23/2015 3:31:13 PM PDT by SJackson
Mahmoud Abbas has stepped down as the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, paving the way for elections for a new top body.
"The resignation of the president of the executive committee Mahmoud Abbas and more than half of its members have created a legal vacuum, and therefore the Palestine National Council (PNC) has been asked to meet in one month to elect a new executive committee," Yousef said in a statement.
Yousef, a senior PLO committee member, added that the resignations will not take effect until the PNC meets. The PNC is the 740-member Palestinian Parliament. Members live in the Palestinian territories and have not met in 20-years.
Abbas took up the position of the Ramallah-based government in 2005, a year after he became the PLO's chief. On several occasions, he has threatened to resign or dissolve the Palestinian Authority.
The PLO's chief negotiator and well-known political figure Saeb Erekat will probably replace Abbas, according to Al Arabiya News, reporting on previous rumors of the Abbas resignation. Saeb Erekat is a close aide to Abbas and had replaced Abed Rabbo as secretary after Rabbo was ousted by Abbas for becoming an increasingly vocal critic of the leader.
Abbas has faced questions about his legitimacy to rule within the Palestinian territories, where he was elected to what was originally meant to be a four-year term in 2005, according to The New York Times. New presidential and legislative elections for the Palestinian Authority have been prevented by an internal rift between Abbas's Fatah party and the rival Islamic group, Hamas, which won the last legislative elections in 2006 and seized control of Gaza the next year.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas resigned on Saturday as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee in a bid to force new elections for the top body, says Wassel Abu Yousef. Yousef also goes on to report that more than half of the 18-member committee have also stepped down, according to Israel National News. However, the 80-year-old Abbas still retains his post as Palestinian president.
I guess he’s skimmed enough bucks to live on the Riviera.
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Presuming this is true, he's resigning as the head of the "former" terror group, not the Palestinian Authority. After all, he was elected to a 4 year term 10 or 11 years ago, no rush to leave that office, the one foreign aid flows to.
Not yet, he’s still President of the PA, that’s where we send the checks.
Well, wouldn’t want him to be skint in his golden years.
The PLO and Hamas don’t get along and now the Iranians have a huge slush fund for more weapons, soldiers, etc. I would get out of the Palestinian territories too before the next round of Hamas attacking Israel.
Their retirement ceremonies usually involve a car bomb. If they give him something that’s ticking, it darn sure won’t be a watch.
They do not. And should there be elections in the PA, not the PLO where Hamas doesn’t vote, Hamas has been favored to win. Iranian support only makes that more likely
one anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish mass murdering terrorist leaves the scene, at LONG last! (Lord protect us if Caliphe B. Hussein Obama stays in office years beyond the end of his term like this Abbas jerk has done!)
(we can expect another murderous terrorist to take Abbas’s place at the head of the PLO gang....., alas...)
“The PNC is the 740-member Palestinian Parliament.”
So half of all Palestinians are in their Parliament! Who knew!
It’s a big council, however that’s not the governing body of the PA, it’s part of the PLO. Which is the official representative of the palestinian people per the US, but doesn’t have any territory to administer.
The PNC is the 740-member Palestinian Parliament.
Exactly. He’s robbed enough from the Paleostinian treasury to retire. He’s all set so time to get while the getting is good
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Hmmmmm.....he must be on Hillary’s secret server!!!
The only people her server is secret from are voters.
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