• Middle East Palestinian President Abu Mazen calls general and presidential elections in May and July

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As many expected and not a few feared, the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)

Abu Mazen

has announced the postponement of the parliamentary elections that he had called for next May 22. His decision, which frustrates at the moment the Palestinians' first appointment with the polls since 2006, is not shared by his rivals, be it the Islamist group Hamas or electoral lists that were presented including some splinters of his own

Fatah

party

.



Abu Mazen has stated that he is not willing to hold elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

until Israel informs him that it allows voting in East Jerusalem.

The Palestinian leadership aspires to declare this area of ​​the city, annexed by Israel after occupying it in the war of '67, as the capital of its future state. The Israeli government in office, which considers all of Jerusalem as "its unified capital", has not officially pronounced whether or not it will give the green light to the Palestinian elections in the eastern part.

"It is an internal Palestinian affair,"

said a senior Israeli foreign official at a recent meeting in Jerusalem with several foreign ambassadors.

"We have received the message that Israel cannot give us an answer and a decision on the elections in Jerusalem because they have no government," said Abu Mazen, questioning the argument of the political crisis in Israel surrounding Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu.


"Elections must be held in all Palestinian territories including Jerusalem. We have made it clear to everyone that we will not go to elections without Jerusalem. We will have elections when Israel approves the elections in East Jerusalem," Abu Mazen clarified in a speech tonight in Ramallah in the one who proclaimed:

"Al Quds (Jerusalem) is ours and no one else's."



Palestinian and Israeli analysts, however, believe that Abu Mazen's decision has another perhaps more powerful motive:

veteran

Rais'

fear of

a Hamas victory in Parliament,

especially in the face of Fatah's deep internal division in elections to which 36 lists came.

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