Abbas changes election law
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas changes the election law, which could boost his Fatah party against Hamas.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decreed new election rules yesterday intended to make it more difficult for his faction's Hamas rivals to win the presidency or keep their majority in Parliament.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 9 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is inclined to call early elections, including for his own office, to end the political and economic crisis in the territories, Palestinian officials said Saturday.
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Mahmoud Abbas's inauguration to succeed Yasser Arafat on Saturday will be overshadowed by Israel's decision to cut ties with the new Palestinian president after a militant attack that killed six Israelis.
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JERUSALEM, June 1 - Western governments moved to shore up the rule of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, with the European Union pledging to begin direct financial aid to the emergency government he appointed over the weekend.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Moderate Palestinian leader  Mahmoud Abbas'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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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec. 16 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced Saturday that he has decided to call early elections, including for his own office, to end a political crisis in the territories that has brought a surge in deadly factional violence over the past week.
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Don't expect a sea-change when Abbas succeeds Arafat
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BEIJING, Dec. 30 -- Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has addressed an election rally of thousands in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, ahead of January 9th&#39;s presidential election.
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This weekend's election to replace Yasser Arafat has the potential to usher in the Arab world's first genuine democracy with a peaceful transfer of power that will augur well for the dream of a Palestinian state. The new Palestinian president &#151; widely expected to be Mahmoud Abbas &#151; doesn't have an easy job ahead of him.
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JERUSALEM, June 17 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency governing cabinet Sunday and officially outlawed the armed wing and paramilitary security branch of the rival Hamas movement, saying it had carried out a "military coup against the Palestinian legitimacy and...
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Mahmoud Abbas extended his hand in peace to Israel as he was sworn in as the new Palestinian leader Saturday, but the Israeli army killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and 46 election officials resigned over alleged ballot irregularities, crushing optimism for an early resumption of the peace process.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he would call for early elections despite Hamas's rejection of the plan.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas declared that  he had won a Palestinian presidential election on Sunday and  dedicated his victory to Yasser Arafat, the late iconic leader  he is replacing.
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Ukraine's Constitutional Court on Saturday overturned some changes introduced to an election law intended to eliminate fraud which tainted last month's presidential poll, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced yesterday that he has decided to call early elections, including for his own office, to end a political crisis in the Palestinian territories that has brought a surge in factional violence over the past week.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for fresh Palestinian elections, throwing down the gauntlet to his Hamas rivals after days of factional violence that has sparked fears of civil war.