Ahmed Sadat, the detained PFLP leader, today urged his supporters and PFLP affiliates to vote for Dr. Mustafa Al-Barguthi for president of the Palestinian Authority at the upcoming election slated for 9th January. Sadat's call followed consultations with Barguthi and the PFLP that ended in a joint electoral program.
The PFLP leader was speaking over the telephone from his PA prison cell in Jericho in a press conference held at Ramallah chamber of commerce in the presence of Barguthi and a number of PFLP leaders in the city. Sadat affirmed that his Front had indulged in dialogues with the DFLP and the People's Party in a bid to nominate one candidate for those "democratic forces" but the discussions reached a deadlock and each one tabled its own nominee.
| PFLP is Communist-oriented, rather than Islamist. The People's Party is the Paleo version of the Communist party... |
He said that the PFLP reached an agreement with Barguthi on national rights atop of which the right of return, self-determination and the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. He said that the agreement also refused the so-called (American) roadmap plan for a final settlement to the Palestinian-Zionist conflict and the Zionist premier Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan. |