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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Abbas declares Rawhi Fattouh will be interim PA head if presidency becomes vacant

2024-11-28

Good to know.

[IsraelTimes] Speaker of Palestinian National Council briefly served as interim PA president after Yasser Arafat’s death

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
declared Wednesday that if the presidency were to become vacant, he would be temporarily replaced by Rawhi Fattouh, the former speaker of the Paleostinian Legislative Council, who also served as interim PA chief following the death of Yasser Arafat, the administrative body announced.

A statement posted to the PA’s official Wafa news site said that in such an event, Fattouh will serve as interim president for no more than 90 days, during which presidential elections will be held. But if it is not possible to hold elections, the Paleostinian Central Council can grant a one-time extension to the interim president’s term.

The 89-year-old Abbas has served as PA president since 2005. Generally unpopular among Paleostinians, Abbas has long been criticized for his administration’s corruption and his refusal to hold elections.

Born in southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
’s Rafah in 1950, Fattouh has spent his adult life as part of the Paleostinian national movement.

Following the 1967 Six Day War, Fattouh moved to Jordan to join "al-Asifah," the armed wing of Fatah, the main political party of the Paleostinian national movement at the time, and afterward received military training in Iraq, according to a profile by the European Council of Foreign Relations.

Since 1983, he has been a member of the Paleostinian National Council, the PA’s legislative body, and was elected as its speaker in 2020. He was appointed to the position of PA agriculture minister in 2003.

In 2008, he was caught trying to smuggle 3,000 cell phones into Israel from Jordan with the help of his Israeli-issued VIP pass.

In January 2023, then-defense minister Yoav Gallant revoked his entry permit along with those of two other PA officials because they visited a former Paleostinian prisoner who was released after serving a 40-year sentence for murdering an Israeli soldier.

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