President Abbas appointed Muhammad Mustafa yesterday, Thursday, to form a new Palestinian government (Al Jazeera)
On Friday, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Palestinian factions described efforts to form a new Palestinian government “without national consensus” as deepening the division and indicative of “the crisis of the PA’s leadership and the gap between it and the Palestinian people and their aspirations.”
A statement by those factions - which included Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestinian National Initiative - said that the national priority is currently “to confront the Israeli aggression and the war of extermination and starvation” that the occupation is waging against the Gaza Strip.
The factions' statement stressed that "making individual decisions, such as forming a new government without national consensus, is a reinforcement of the policy of exclusivity and a deepening of division at a historical moment when the Palestinian people need unity."
The statement pointed out that "the Palestinian people have the right to question the feasibility of replacing one government with another, and one prime minister with another, from the same political and partisan environment."
In their statement, the Palestinian factions called on all national forces, especially in the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), to agree on managing this critical stage “in a way that serves the Palestinian cause and meets the aspirations of the Palestinian people to extract their legitimate rights, liberate their land and sanctities, and establish their independent state.” "full sovereignty, with Jerusalem as its capital."
This comes after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday, Thursday, assigned economist Muhammad Mustafa to form the new Palestinian government, 3 weeks after Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh resigned from his position.
The tasks of the new Prime Minister in the text of the assignment included coordinating efforts to reconstruct Gaza, reunifying Palestinian institutions, continuing reform leading to a system based on governance and transparency and combating corruption, and preparing to hold legislative and presidential elections in all Palestinian governorates, including occupied Jerusalem.
Source: Al Jazeera + social networking sites