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Israel-Palestine
MPs fail to agree on Paleo cabinet
2005-02-22
Attempts to form a new Palestinian cabinet have drawn a blank after a session of parliament was halted amid disputes over the selection of new ministers. Parliament speaker Rawhi Fattuh said on Monday the session would resume on Tuesday in the middle of debate which came after Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya unveiled his prospective cabinet line-up and the top priorities of his administration. "I regret to inform you that 15 other deputies want to take part in the debate but we do not have time," Fattuh said. "As a consequence we will continue tomorrow."

A senior government official said the vote was being shelved amid continued dispute among deputies from the dominant Fatah faction over the line-up of a new government. "There will be no vote today," Tayyib Abd al-Rahim, secretary general of the Palestinian Authority, said in Ram Allah on Monday.
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