| Assuming the election actually comes off, it will be interesting to see what happens when Hamas wins... |
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Paleostinian election officials announced Sunday that 36 candidate lists had been approved to run in legislative elections set for next month, the first Paleostinian polls in 15 years.
The vote, which precedes a presidential election called for July 31, is part of an effort by the dominant Paleostinian movements -- Fatah secularists and Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, Islamists -- to boost international support for Paleostinian governance, AFP reported.
Groups had until Wednesday to submit their lists of candidates to contest in the May 22 legislative polls.
Individual names on each list are due to be published Tuesday, but the Paleostinian electoral commission announced on its website that it had approved all 36 applications.
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....
’s Fatah movement, which controls the Paleostinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, is contesting the polls, as is Hamas, which has run the Israeli-blockaded 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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 ...
Strip since 2007.
Fatah is facing challenges from dissident factions including the Freedom list, led by a nephew of the late Paleostinian icon Yasser Arafat, Nasser al-Kidwa.
Freedom has been endorsed by Marwan Barghouti, a popular leader whom supporters have described as the Paleostinian Mandela.
Barghouti is serving multiple life sentences in Israel for allegedly organizing deadly attacks during the second Paleostinian intifada (uprising) from 2000-2005.
Abbas’s former Gaza security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, is also backing a list of challengers.
Former Paleostinian prime minister Salam Fayyad
...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either...
, an ex-World Bank official with a track record of fighting corruption, is supporting another.
While Fatah and Hamas have reached an agreement for voting to take place in the West Bank and Gaza, the ability of Paleostinians in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem to vote remains uncertain.
Israel bans all Paleostinian political activity in Jerusalem, but Paleostinian leaders insist voting be held in the city’s east, which they claim as the capital of a future Paleostinian state.
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