Hamas Has Strong Showing in Local Elections
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Description: Palestinians held local elections Saturday for the first time in many years. Hamas, the militant group that is against rapprochement with Israel, scored well in the polls, defeating the Fatah party in many areas.
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Â·  President Abbas swears in new government  Â·  Hamas claims its actions have brought stability
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Thousands of Palestinians voted yesterday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in 28 years, with the Islamic group
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ABU DIS, West Bank: Palestinians in the West Bank turned out on Thursday to vote in the first council elections in 28 years, serving as a litmus test for next monthâs presidential ballot and the support of the Hamas movement.
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Palestinians hold municipal elections in parts of the West Bank on Thursday, seen as a dress rehearsal for a presidential vote to choose Yasser Arafat's successor next month.
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Hamas published newspaper ads Tuesday calling on its followers to vote in upcoming Palestinian elections, the first sign that the Islamic terrorist group is making the historic vote a high priority.
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JERICHO, WEST BANK -- Thousands of Palestinians crammed polling stations in scattered West Bank towns to vote in municipal elections yesterday that were a warmup for next month&#39;s presidential ballot and the first time the ruling Fatah movement and the
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DAMASCUS, Syria - A senior official of the Palestinian militant group Hamas indicted in the United States for conspiring to fund terror attacks against Israel denied the accusations and said the charges were driven by election-year politics in the United States.   "This is election campaigning," Mousa Abu Marzook, deputy chief of the Hamas political bureau, told The Associated Press in Damascus on Friday...
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In municipal elections Thursday, voters chose between the moderate Fatah party and the militant Hamas.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Hamas militants defeated  the mainstream Palestinian movement Fatah in nine of 26 local  elections, results showed Sunday, in a foretaste of challenges  confronting emerging moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas.
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Hamas Islamists seemed in command of much of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after battering forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Dec 1, 2004 - A Hamas leader announced Wednesday that the Islamic militant group will not field a candidate in Jan. 9 presidential elections and said he expected Hamas supporters not to participate in the vote.
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the Gaza Strip in  decades, a test of strength between new President Mahmoud Abbas  and the militant Hamas group.
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More than one million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have registered to vote in upcoming municipal and general elections, officials said Thursday, completing
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JERUSALEM -- New Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections could be organized in less than 90 days but may not be possible any time soon without Hamas's consent, officials involved in election planning said yesterday.
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Palestinians are voting in local elections today to fill around 300 seats in 26 municipalities across the West Bank. More than 140,000 electors will choose from 886 candidates as they select local council officials for the town of Jericho and 25 villages.
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The radical Hamas movement made a surprisingly strong showing in local Palestinian elections, according to preliminary results obtained Friday, signaling a drop in