Why Abu Mazen isn't running again
Remember how Abu Bluff said that he wasn't going to run again to be 'Palestinian President'? Well, he didn't tell a lie. Yet. You see, there aren't going to be 'Palestinian elections' anytime soon. This is from a Google translation of an al-Arabiya article in Arabic, hence the poor English: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the presidential and legislative elections Palestinian was scheduled to take place in January (January) will be postponed, adding that it had agreed on the advice suggested by the absence of elections, according to a news report Friday 20/11/2009.Does this reflect the will of the 'Palestinian people'? Who knows? Who cares? What could go wrong?
Abbas said in an interview with BBC television broadcast on Thursday that the Palestinian leadership arrangements will be made to avoid a constitutional vacuum "when the term of the Legislative Council and the current term of office as President of the Palestinian Authority in January 25 (January) next year. Palestinian President did not disclose those measures.
He said the Palestinian leader "the best that Hamas accepts the holding of elections, but if what happened to the Palestinian leadership must take action."
Abbas, to avoid responding to a question whether he will remain in office until new elections are held, and said the election "may be delayed a year or less than a year I do not know, now I will not say I am standing in the elections."
Asked whether he had made a final decision not to run for a second term, said Abbas "not to run a final decision."
It was announced earlier that he did not wish to run in the elections that were scheduled to take place on January 24 (January) next year.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:49 AM
1 Comments:
If Abbas really decides not to run, Mohammed Ghaneim is his likely successor. But the chances of him stepping down are unlikely. Arab leaders cling to power until they die in office or are overthrown. There is no one leader in the Arab World who has retired peacefully. And you can be sure Abbas won't do it unless he loses all support in the PA leadership.
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