Barghouti withdraws bid for Palestinian presidency
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MARWAN BARGHOUTI, the jailed firebrand Palestinian leader, has decided not to run for the presidency, aides announced last night, lifting the threat of a divided vote in his Fatah faction.
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Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Palestinian leader, was on Thursday under pressure from opponents and allies to withdraw his candidacy in the Palestinian Authority presidential elections, just a day after he registered.
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Jailed popular leader Marwan Barghouthi decided on Wednesday to run in a Palestinian presidential election and Hamas militants vowed to boycott it, throwing the campaign into turmoil after Yasser Arafat's death.
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Marwan Barghouti's withdrawal leaves Mahmoud Abbas without a serious challenger in the Jan. 9 vote to choose the head of the Palestinian Authority.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti (mahr-WAHN&#39; bahr-GOO&#39;-tee) now says he won&#39;t be a candidate for Palestinian president.
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Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti, 43, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail, announced yesterday that he would withdraw his candidacy for the Palestinian presidency.
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The jailed West Bank leader Marwan Barghuti has decided to run for the vacant post of Palestinian Authority president, according to Abdelrahman al-Shomali, member of the dominant Fatah faction&#39;s higher committee.
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Senior Palestinian figures in the main political group, Fatah, closed ranks on Thursday against the on-again off-again presidential candidacy of the popular Marwan Barghouti
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Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has said that he will be a candidate in the elections next month. The move has thrown the upcoming election into confusion, as it had seemed interim leader Mahmoud
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Imprisoned arch terrorist Marwan Barghouti has reportedly set conditions for complying with Fatah leadership demands that he withdraw from the PA leadership race.
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RAMALLAH: A day after jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti shocked his compatriots by announcing heâll run for president, many Palestinians denounced him for endangering unity and a smooth transition of power in the post-Arafat era.
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Jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti has decided to run for Palestinian Authority president in a Jan. 9 election, seeking to succeed the late Yasser Arafat
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Fatah chief Farouk Kaddoumi said the group&#39;s leader in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, by deciding to seek the presidency of the Palestinian Authority.
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Israeli police arrest Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti as he campaigns in East Jerusalem.
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Moderate Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas&#39;s chances of winning a presidential election to replace Yasser Arafat appeared to be sealed after his main rival Marwan Barghouthi pulled out of the race.
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Israel has ruled out releasing jailed Marwan Barghouti, a leading Palestinian figure who is widely seen as the strongest candidate to succeed Yasser Arafat.
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The Palestinian political scene is in turmoil today after jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, in a last-minute reversal, entered the race for president to replace Yasser Arafat, challenging the establishment candidate.