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Abbas quits PLO leadership ahead of internal election
(MENAFN- Arab News) RAMALLAH: 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.
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.
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