Poll: Abbas is front-runner in PA election
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Interim Palestine Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas is the clear front-runner in upcoming presidential elections, according to a poll released Sunday.
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Imprisoned Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti is a serious challenger to interim leader Mahmoud Abbas in the January 9 elections to replace Yasser Arafat, according to polls published on Monday.
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Palestinians vote on Sunday for a successor to Yasser Arafat widely expected to be Mahmoud Abbas, a pragmatist they hope will revive a peace process with Israel after years of bloodshed.
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Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, the front-runner in upcoming presidential elections, received a loud ovation from thousands of supporters at his first public rally Tuesday, generating some excitement for the low-key politician seeking to replace
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Two of the first opinion polls since nominations closed for the Palestinian presidential election show a tight race between the establishment candidate, Mahmoud Abbas, and the imprisoned military commander, Marwan Barghouti.
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TULKAREM, West Bank - Palestinian presidential election favourite Mahmud Abbas said the West Bank barrier would not deliver security to Israel as he addressed voters who have been walled in by the giant structure.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday that Mahmoud Abbas would probably win the upcoming Palestinian presidential elections, Egyptian television reported.
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Campaigning has been stepped up for the Palestinian presidential elections, due to take place on 9 January. Fatah candidate Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to dismantle its West Bank barrier at a rally in Tulkarm.
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The Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has received another boost in his campaign to replace Yasser Arafat. The militant al-Aqsa Martyrs&#39; Brigades - the armed wing of the Fatah movement - has announced that it will back his candidacy for the January poll.
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The killings drew a pointed response from Mahmoud Abbas, the favorite in the Palestinian presidential election on Sunday.
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Polls published Monday showed that jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti poses a serious threat to mainstream candidate Mahmoud Abbas in the Jan. 9 presidential election to replace Yasser Arafat.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov. 25 -- The Revolutionary Council of the dominant Palestinian political faction, Fatah, approved former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday as its candidate to succeed Yasser Arafat in a presidential election set for Jan. 9.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec. 19 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday he is pushing ahead with early elections despite factional fighting that intensified after his initial call for a poll, and he appealed for international help in restarting peace talks with Israel.
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Mahmoud Abbas is studious, gracious, pragmatic and opposed to terrorism. He is also tough enough to have been Yasir Arafat's No. 2 for many years in the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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RAMALLAH - Marwan Barghouti will run for president of the Palestinian Authority, reversing an earlier decision to support interim leader Mahmoud Abbas, according to a Palestinian official.
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presidential election to choose Arafat&#39;s successor, arrived in Israel after a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday. Mahmoud Abbas -- frontrunner in next month&#39;s poll -- and Ahmed Qurie.
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GAZA CITY  - The radical Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades movement, an armed offshoot of the dominant Fatah faction, gave its endorsement to PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas in the contest for Palestinian Authority president.