Abbas Reelected as Head of PLO

Rasa - President Mahmoud Abbas was reelected as the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Friday, as he seeks to strengthen his control over politics in the occupied West Bank.

News ID: 437477

Date: 04 May 2018 - 19:58

RNA - During a four-day meeting, the PLO’s parliament, the Palestinian National Council, which was not attended by Abbas’s rivals Hamas, backed him and selected him as the leadership of the PLO’s executive committee.

“President Abu Mazen (Abbas) was nominated and unanimously approved as the president of the State of Palestine,” senior Palestinian official Nabil Shaath said.

According to Fars News Agancy, the PLO, an umbrella group which is dominated by Abbas’s Fatah party and includes most Palestinian factions but not Hamas, represents the Palestinians internationally.

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