Barghouti pulls out of election
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An aide says jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has withdrawn from the presidential campaign.
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The imprisoned leader of Fatah&#39;s Tanzim in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, announced on Friday that he will not run for the post of Palestinian Authority chairman.
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Marwan Barghouti withdrew his name as a candidate for the Palestinian presidency today after bowing to increasing pressure from Fatah leaders.
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The Palestinians&#39; ruling Fatah party threatened Monday to strip Marwan Barghouti of his membership if the jailed candidate continues his bid for the Palestinian presidency.
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Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is under mounting pressure to abandon his plan to run in the election for the chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority, as some of the faction&#39;s leaders called over the weekend for his expulsion from Fatah.
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Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti may run in the upcoming presidential elections, aides say.
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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.
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A day after jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti shocked his compatriots by announcing that he will run for president, many Palestinians denounced him yesterday for endangering unity and a smooth transition of power in the post-Yasser Arafat era.
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BEERSHEBA: Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi is considering pulling out of a presidential race to avoid splitting his mainstream Fatah faction, an Israeli-Arab lawmaker said after visiting him in jail.
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The crisis surrounding Afghanistan's  historic presidential election appeared to end on Monday as  President Hamid Karzai's chief rival said he and other  candidates were withdrawing their rejection of the weekend  poll.
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Iraq&#39;s leading Sunni Muslim party withdrew from the country&#39;s Jan. 30 elections on Monday, saying its conditions for participating had not been met.
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The jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has changed his mind again and pledged to run in the January presidential election, officials said.
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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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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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Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the Palestinian uprising jailed by Israel but perhaps the strongest candidate to oust Yasser Arafat's old guard of politicians, plans to run in upcoming presidential elections, a person close to Barghouti said Saturday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Jailed Palestinian uprising  leader Marwan Barghouthi has pulled out of a Jan. 9  presidential election to succeed Yasser Arafat, a close aide  said on Sunday.
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Marwan Barghouti, an imprisoned Palestinian leader, reversed a decision Wednesday night and entered the race for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority.