Mahmoud Abbas resigned Saturday as Head of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee in a bid to force new elections for the top Body, an official said. Wassel Abu Yussef said that more than half of the 18 -Member committee had also stepped down According to Channel 2.11 of the 18 Members of the Executive committee, including Abbas himself, voted in favor of the Resignation, which will subsequently warrant new elections. Abbas is believed to be Seeking these elections in order to allow for more of his supporters to become Members of the PLO’s Executive Committee, Channel 2 reported.
The resignation of the president of the executive committee Mahmoud Abbas and more than half of its members has created a legal vacuum, and therefore the Palestine National Council has been asked to meet in one month to elect a new Wxecutive committee Yussef told AFP Yussef added, however, that the resignations will take effect only when the PNC meets. The PNC, or Palestinian parliament, has 740 members who live in the Palestinian territories and in the diaspora
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