Palestinians voting in local elections
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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
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Palestinians voted Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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Description: Palestinians vote in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly 30 years. Officials say nearly 900 candidates are competing for more than 300 seats in this first of three rounds of municipal voting.
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Preliminary election results from the West Bank indicate the mainstream Fatah faction is leading in the first Palestinian municipal elections since 1976 despite a strong showing by the militant Islamic group Hamas.
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Seven candidates are contesting the Palestinian presidential elections on Jan. 9. They are:
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted Thursday  in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly  three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next  month to choose Yasser Arafat's successor.
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Arab &quot;Palestinians&quot; launched a voter registration drive Saturday, a first step toward long-overdue elections, and Palestinian Authority/Palestine Liberation Organization &quot;Chairman of Terror&quot; Yasser Arafat promised that voting for parliament and president
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Yehya Shatarat punched his fist into his hand as he watched satellite television pictures of Palestinians in the West Bank voting for a successor to the late Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinians voted in the first council elections for three decades amid a row over British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan to prepare the birth of a democratic state at a London conference.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 23  - Palestinians in 26 municipalities across the West Bank headed to the polls Thursday as they get the chance to vote for their councillors for the first time in three decades.
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Palestinians Saturday startedtheir registration for legislative and presidential elections aswell as local councils, without announcing specified date for theelections.
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Militant group Hamas makes a strong showing in Palestinian local council elections in the West Bank.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - 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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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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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted in  their first-ever municipal elections on Thursday in a test of  support for President Mahmoud Abbas and rival Islamist groups  ahead of Israel's withdrawal from the occupied territory.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted on  Sunday for a successor to Yasser Arafat and looked likely to  elect Mahmoud Abbas, who has pledged to revive peacemaking with  Israel after years of bloodshed.