Palestinian factions explore broad alliance for November elections
Hamas and other Palestinian political factions opposed to the ruling Fatah government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are exploring the formation of a broad electoral coalition before historic polls late this year. Husam Badran, the national relations official for Hamas, told Al Jazeera that the movement has recently held bilateral and collective meetings with groups that include Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the National Initiative and Democratic Reform, the Mohammed Dahlan-led breakaway Fatah faction.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: Abbas in a July 9 decree called for Palestinian legislative elections to be held on November 28.
- Fact 2: They would mark the first such vote since January 2006.
- Fact 3: Campaigning is set to launch on November 6 despite ongoing complexities, including Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, escalating violence in the occupied West Bank and Israeli restrictions in occupied East Jerusalem.
- Fact 4: Dahlan, a native of Gaza’s Khan Younis refugee camp, served as Gaza security chief under Yasser Arafat in the 1990s when his crackdowns on Hamas activists led some to call the enclave “Dahlanistan“.
Hamas and other Palestinian political factions opposed to the ruling Fatah government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are exploring the formation of a broad electoral coalition before historic polls late this year. Husam Badran, the national relations official for Hamas, told Al Jazeera that the movement has recently held bilateral and collective meetings with groups that include Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the National Initiative and Democratic Reform, the Mohammed Dahlan-led breakaway Fatah faction.
Dahlan and Democratic Reform have previously been firm critics of Hamas. Abbas in a July 9 decree called for Palestinian legislative elections to be held on November 28. They would mark the first such vote since January 2006.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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