A member of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement on Wednesday revealed that Fatah suggested in Egypt to form a Palestinian national unity government.
Ibraheem Abu al-Najja, a senior Fatah leader, said that the national understanding government would be considered "a legitimate administration enjoying legal authorities."
By this offer, Fatah meets with its rival Hamas which rejected a technocrat government and insisted that it will only accept a national unity government to settle the Palestinian crisis.
The forming of a new government replacing deposed Hamas administration in Gaza and Salam Fayyad's government in West Bank was put forward by Egypt which works to launch the inter-Palestinian dialogue.
But Abu al-Najja said the national government must work on holding presidential and parliamentary elections at the same time.Hamas rejects holding early parliamentary elections since it won the four-year-term elections of 2006. However, Hamas wants to run in presidential elections which become due in January 2009.
Last year, Hamas routed pro-Abbas forces and seized control of Gaza Strip by force. Since then, the Hamas-dominated parliament has been disabled. Hamas seeks to appoint the parliament speaker as a president for 60 days according to the basic Palestinian law but legal experts say this move can not be done without a national agreement, given the failure of the parliament in passing any resolution since it was appointed.
Source: Xinhua
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