Fatah: Elections date to be announced soon, Abbas is our candidate
NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Fatah said on Sunday that current Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas is the movement's choice for presidential candidate, and that within the next few days he would set a date for upcoming elections.
The statements come only days after Hamas and Fatah signed a historic national reconciliation agreement, reuniting the two largest Palestinian political parties in a consensus government for the first time in seven years.
Secretary-general of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement Amin Maqboul told Ma'an on Sunday that in the coming days, Abbas would issue two presidential decrees. The first will announce the establishment of a unity government, and the second will set a date for Palestinian Authority presidential and parliamentary elections, as well as PLO National Council elections.
Maqboul said that Fatah's Revolutionary Council decided more than a year ago that Abbas would be the party's candidate in upcoming elections, despite the leader's own insistence in the past that he would not stand for re-election.
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