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2021-04-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian Officials Pressure Abbas to Postpone Elections

[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] More and more Paleostinian officials have stated that 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....
may postpone the upcoming parliamentary elections, a move increasingly opposed by the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, movement and other electoral lists.

Nabil Shaath, an advisor Abbas, was among the latest officials to warn that elections are "very likely" to be delayed if Israel continues to bar voting in East Jerusalem.

A senior Paleostinian Authority (PA) official told Kan 11 News on Wednesday that he believes there is a high probability that the elections, which are scheduled for May 22, will be delayed.

"Currently, there is a 90 percent chance that the election will be postponed," the source said.

According to the report, Abbas has not yet decided on whether to postpone the polls, even after a series of discussions on the issue that took place this week in Ramallah.

Kan 11 News reported that the pressure on Abbas has increased in recent days.

Among other things, Fatah officials fear that the internal divisions within the party ahead of the polls may allow Hamas to gain a foothold that would adversely affect relations between the PA and Israel and the administration in Washington.

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