The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has called into question, Thursday, February 17, the holding of presidential and legislative announced by September if they could not take place in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Hamas. "The presidential and legislative elections to be held in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, and it is unacceptable that they are held in the West Bank only, without the Gaza Strip.
And without that, it does is not possible to keep and we can not do, "Abbas said, suggesting that the refusal of Hamas announced to allow the organization in Gaza could jeopardize all the polls. "The internal division is the biggest danger facing our cause and our first concern is to restore national unity, which is why we have called presidential and parliamentary elections so that the people shall decide the issue," he said at a news conference.
A spokesman for the Islamist movement in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, said that these statements reflected "a state of confusion" by Mr Abbas. In a statement, the Hamas leader, won the recent Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, added that the settlement of the division interpalestinienne required a full review and that "elections ser [I] t is the result of a rather not the cause of a solution.
" The Palestinian leadership had announced Feb. 12 the holding of presidential and legislative elections in September and Tuesday the government reshuffle for these consultations. He called on Hamas, which denies its legitimacy, "defer to the will of the people." But these two polls should be held in the West Bank alone, Hamas's Gaza and Israel refusing to prohibit any Palestinian political activity in East Jerusalem, occupied and annexed in 1967.
Abbas' mandate expired in January 2009 but was extended through the organization of a new presidential election to avoid an institutional vacuum. 
And without that, it does is not possible to keep and we can not do, "Abbas said, suggesting that the refusal of Hamas announced to allow the organization in Gaza could jeopardize all the polls. "The internal division is the biggest danger facing our cause and our first concern is to restore national unity, which is why we have called presidential and parliamentary elections so that the people shall decide the issue," he said at a news conference.
A spokesman for the Islamist movement in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, said that these statements reflected "a state of confusion" by Mr Abbas. In a statement, the Hamas leader, won the recent Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, added that the settlement of the division interpalestinienne required a full review and that "elections ser [I] t is the result of a rather not the cause of a solution.
" The Palestinian leadership had announced Feb. 12 the holding of presidential and legislative elections in September and Tuesday the government reshuffle for these consultations. He called on Hamas, which denies its legitimacy, "defer to the will of the people." But these two polls should be held in the West Bank alone, Hamas's Gaza and Israel refusing to prohibit any Palestinian political activity in East Jerusalem, occupied and annexed in 1967.
Abbas' mandate expired in January 2009 but was extended through the organization of a new presidential election to avoid an institutional vacuum.
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