Palestinians Register Candidates for New President
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians began  registering candidates on Saturday for a presidential election  to replace Yasser Arafat, while officials warned the vote may  be delayed if Israel does not halt military activities.
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In a dress rehearsal of next monthâs presidential election, Palestinians have voted in the first council elections for 28 years.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Yasser Arafat may be dead  -- but his image and his spirit hovered over the fight to  succeed him, as seven candidates launched campaigns on Saturday  playing up their links with the late Palestinian president.
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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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More than 1 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have registered to vote in upcoming municipal and general elections, officials said yesterday, completing
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian officials on  Saturday began registering candidates for an election to  replace Yasser Arafat as officials warned the vote may be  delayed unless Israel halted military activities.
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Up to Tuesday evening, around 600,000 Palestinians have registered for the Palestinian elections,a senior Palestinian leader of elections said on Wednesday.
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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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RAMALLAH: Prominent Palestinian figures appealed yesterday for an end to violence, adding weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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Voter registration has begun throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in preparation for possible general and local elections next year.
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Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmoud Abbas announced on Saturday the beginning of his campaign for the presidential election due on Jan. 9. &quot;We want peace and stability
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November 21, 2004 -- Palestinians began registering candidates yesterday for a presidential election to replace Yasser Arafat, as the late leader&#39;s family considers releasing his medical records and revealing his cause of death.
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Cloaking himself in Yasser Arafat's legacy, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas opened his campaign for president Saturday with a pledge to fulfill Palestinian dreams of statehood.
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EL-BIREH, West Bank, Dec. 25 -- Candidates vying to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority kicked off a two-week election campaign Saturday with rallies and speeches that largely invoked the deceased leader's legacy and vowed to continue his campaign for statehood.
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About 1,000 candidates are running for 300 municipal seats in West Bank villages and towns. It will be the first electoral test before the January 9 presidential elections.
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A brief list of possible contenders for Palestinian Authority president. Some have only said they are considering a bid and none have formally announced yet since the period for registering as a candidate begins only this weekend.
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Palestinians are electing a successor to their late leader, Yasser Arafat.