Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Palestinian government has been dissolved: elections in autumn

The Palestinian government has been dissolved, and Prime Minister Fayyad officially handed in his resignation. The majority of cabinet posts to be filled and new elections are scheduled for fall. According to observers, the Fatah wants to strengthen against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In view of expected for the fall elections has dissolved the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Monday his cabinet.


President Mahmoud Abbas said he had accepted the decision. A consultant said Fayyad, the Prime Minister would now form a new cabinet, should belong to the many technocrats that build the Palestinian institutions. Fayyad has for the appointment of the new cabinet six weeks. A government official had announced the resignation of the Minister on Sunday.

The new cabinet would be composed of more members of Abbas' Fatah Party, said the informant, who declined to be named. Observers see the planned cabinet reshuffle an attempt to Fatah against the rival Islamic Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip to bring in a better position. In view of the continuing popular discontent over cronyism Fayyad urges long been a cabinet reshuffle.

Even in Abbas' Fatah party, there were similar demands in order to take pressure from the government. The Arab world is being rocked by a wave of mass protests against the governments, which have resulted in Tunisia and Egypt, to overthrow. Of the 24 Cabinet posts were filled last only 16: Two ministers resigned and six are stuck in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian government controls only the West Bank in fact, since the radical Islamic Hamas to power in 2007 in the Gaza Strip tore itself. On Saturday the government had announced plans to hold parliamentary and presidential elections to September. Hamas said it, they will not participate in the vote still recognize the result.

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