Monday, February 14, 2011

The Palestinian government resigns to prepare a large remodeling

The Government of the Palestinian Authority today announced his resignation in the middle of the president, Mahmoud Abbas. The idea is to change the faces of a discredited Palestinian government and to keep the prime minister, Salam Fayyad, who enjoys strong support from the international community. This is a government reform which has been talked about for months, but now appears to have gained urgency in the heat of popular uprisings in the Arab world.

Fayyad will be responsible for forming the new Cabinet in the coming days. Palestinian sources explain that attempt to open beyond the range of Fatah, the dominant party in the executive branch in Ramallah, and to accommodate ministers from different political parties and independent personalities.

Something like a national unity government but without the presence of Hamas, the Islamist movement that swept the 2006 elections and governs in the Gaza Strip. The refurbishment comes two days after the Palestinian Authority announced the call for presidential and legislative elections by next September.

The mandate of President Mahmoud Abbas, expired in January 2009. Since then, the rivalry between Hamas and Fatah has prevented the holding of elections. The Islamist movement has already announced that it plans to participate in the new call for elections or recognize the results. Without the participation of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, it is clear that the elections are to be viable this time either.

New Government and new elections are two separate undermined efforts to revive the credibility of the Palestinian Authority unable to provide the population advances in the field of negotiations with the Israelis.

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