The announced confrontation between the Fatah Central Committee and the prominent leader in it, Nasser Al-Qudwa - which led to his dismissal - reflected the fierce battle the movement is waging to confront the attempts to build unofficial Fatah lists.

On Thursday morning, the dialogue set by the movement’s leadership between its representatives - Mahmoud Al-Aloul and Jibril Rajoub with Nasser Al-Kidwa - ended with the movement’s announcement of his final dismissal, due to his intention to form a list to run in the legislative elections outside the official Fatah list.

A statement issued by the Movement’s Central Committee said that it dismissed him “in order to preserve the unity of the movement,” and after 48 hours had been given him to retract his declared positions that override the movement’s rules of procedure and its decisions.

Pathetic decision

Al-Kidwa said in a brief statement, "The decision taken by an influential party in the Central Committee raises sadness and pity over the state of affairs in the movement, without respecting the internal order or the political logic and recognized traditions."

He stressed that he will remain "open to the bone, and what happened will not change anything, and he will remain keen on the interests of the movement, and before that the interests of the homeland."

However, sources close to Al-Qudwa told Al-Jazeera Net that the Central Committee stipulated that he withdraw from forming an independent list to run for elections outside the Fatah list, dissolve the National Democratic Forum that he sought to form during the past weeks, and make an appeal to the people of the movement to rally behind the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas and the committee's list. Central Elections.

But Al-Kidwa - according to the sources - tried to convince his colleagues in the Central Committee that the indications are that President Abbas is heading to postpone the elections due to health conditions and the outbreak of the Corona epidemic, and therefore there is no need to discourage him from his steps in a way that harms the image of the movement.

Fatah called for a rally behind the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas and the list of the Central Elections Committee (Al-Jazeera)

Arbitrary dismissal

In turn, the director of the Masarat Center for Political Studies, Hani Al-Masry - who participates in the role model in the formation of the National Democratic Forum - believes that "the elections have not started yet, and what happened is an arbitrary separation of the intention to participate in them."

Al-Masry told Al-Jazeera Net that separating the role model means that the Fatah leadership's attempts were unsuccessful to dissuade him from his decision to form the forum and represent it in a list in the Legislative Council.

According to Al-Masry, the forum is concerned with change in the Palestinian political reality, and if elections are held or not, it will be formed, because change is an urgent need to save the Palestinian community.

Out of consensus

While the leaders of the Central Committee and the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement preferred not to comment on the dismissal of al-Qudwa, the head of the movement’s media office, Munir al-Jaghoub, told Al-Jazeera Net that al-Qudwa was the one who prepared the draft of the movement’s rules of procedure, including the system of penalties for individuals and leaders who do not adhere to its decisions.

According to Al-Jaghoub, the example departed from the Fatah consensus and the movement’s internal system. He said that the dismissal came by a decision from the Central Committee, but the Revolutionary Council of the movement must vote on it as well, stressing that the internal structure of the movement is coherent and strong.

However, Abdel Fattah Hamayel, a leader in Fatah and a former member of its revolutionary council, said on his Facebook page that "separating the example lacks wisdom, and it violates the movement's internal system."

Nabil Amr considered the decision to dismiss the role model unfortunate (Al-Jazeera)

Nabil Amr's list

For his part, the leader of the movement, Nabil Amr, told Al-Jazeera Net that separating Al-Kidwa is an unfortunate decision, and his case could be addressed in different ways, adding, "I do not think that surgical treatments will solve Fatah's problems, but on the contrary, they will be counterproductive."

Nabil Amr is also a Fatah leader who is expected to participate in the legislative elections with a list outside the official movement’s list, but he said, "My plans are still as they are, and at the appropriate time I announce a summary of my positions."

These developments came after differences between the captive leader Marwan Barghouti and the movement’s leadership surfaced in recent weeks as well, as he announced his intention to run for the presidential elections, while Al-Kidwa called on him to support a list formed by the National Democratic Forum to run in the legislative elections.

In recent days, however, it was understood that Barghouti backed away from any list outside the official movement, as Nasser Al-Kidwa wrote on his Twitter page, “From the first day we tried to include Marwan Barghouti in the forum and lead it, and we are with him if he runs for the presidency, but if he does not run and the elections take place, every incident Modern".

Nevertheless, the separation of the role model from the Fatah movement warns of the possibility of postponing the Palestinian elections in the event that the movement’s central committee is unable to limit the lists that its members form outside its official list as an expected list of the previously dismissed leader of the movement, Muhammad Dahlan.

Multiple lists of Fatah means dispersal of voices (Al-Jazeera)

Fatah fears

For his part, Professor of Political Science at Al-Azhar University Ibrahim Abrash believes that Fatah’s fears are justified, as the multiplicity of its lists means the dispersion of votes, which will be in favor of Hamas, which will participate in a unified list and its sons and sympathizers will vote for it, while the people of Fatah vote for multiple lists, some of which will not reach Discount rate.

Moreover, the existence of more than one list for Fatah reflects the absence of its unity and confirms its division from Abrash's point of view, and this affects its image and its ability to lead the Palestinian people.

Abrash says that what happened with Al-Kidwa may backfire on Fatah, as he is on the one hand the nephew of the late President Yasser Arafat, and on the other hand he is the son of the movement who held important positions as Palestine's foreign minister and its representative in the United Nations, but he is also the second man to separate from the movement From the people of the Gaza Strip after Muhammad Dahlan.

Abrash believes that the role model will "deter others, including Nabil Amr," especially since Marwan Barghouti will not run in the legislative elections, which provides Fateh with running in the elections with one list, but with a weak popular position.

And he believes that postponing the elections remains an option. Fatah is afraid of running the elections and Hamas is participating with them, because the two major factions on the Palestinian arena are forced to fight them, so Fatah is not sure of obtaining a majority due to its division and the arrival of its political program to a dead end, nor does Hamas - which faces the effects The blockade in the Gaza Strip - certain of the decisive effect in light of the deteriorating conditions there.