Palestinian rival factions plan to meet in Cairo to discuss polls

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RAMALLAH, 16 March, 2021 (TON): On Tuesday in Cairo, the Palestinian rival factions Fatah and Hamas will have talks on the mechanisms for the forthcoming elections.

The first in 15 years parliamentary and presidential polls are set for 22 May and 31 July.

Hamas was blacklisted by the EU and the US as an extremist group but won an unexpected majority at the last elections of 2006 that was not accepted by President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah and led to clashes and split in the government.

Fatah, on the other hand, has since run the Palestinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Hamas holds the Gaza Strip since 2007.

To cope with the violence and ease the tensions that erupted in 2009, the two groups met in Cairo in February and agreed on setting up an electoral court and committed to respecting the results.

 

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