Barghuti Withdraws his Candidacy and Supports Abbas
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Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti, 43, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail, announced yesterday that he would withdraw his candidacy for the Palestinian presidency.
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Jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti threw Palestinian politics into disarray today when he decided to run for president, reversing an earlier decision.
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Firebrand uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi came under pressure from his Fatah faction Friday to drop potentially divisive plans to run for Palestinian president from his Israeli jail cell.
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The chief challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he and several other presidential contenders are withdrawing their rejection of Saturday's election.
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Palestinian democracy activist Mustafa Barghouti joins the race to replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian president.
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The jailed West Bank leader Marwan Barghuti has decided to run for the vacant post of Palestinian Authority president, according to Abdelrahman al-Shomali, member of the dominant Fatah faction&#39;s higher committee.
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Ha scritto dal carcere, dove Ã¨ rinchiuso. Da lÃ¬, Marwan Barghuti ha annunciato che non si candiderÃ  alle elezioni presidenziali palestinesi del 9 gennaio e ha chiesto a tutti i palestinesi di sostenere la candidatura di Abu Mazen.
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Fatah, the mainstream Palestinian movement, hopes that its former West Bank leader Marwan Barghouti would take back his candidacy for the Jan. 9 presidential election.
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Marwan Barghouti's withdrawal leaves Mahmoud Abbas without a serious challenger in the Jan. 9 vote to choose the head of the Palestinian Authority.
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. Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi, who is illegally jailed in Israeli occupation prison, will not run in the Palestinian presidential election, an official
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas resigned on Thursday in a procedural move aimed at launching a unity government with President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, an official in Haniyeh's office told Reuters.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - New PLO chief Mahmud Abbas emerged on Saturday as the clear contender to replace Yasser Arafat a day after jailed West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti said he would not be running in the presidential runoff in six weeks time.
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JERUSALEM - Jailed leader Marwan Barghouthi will quit the Palestinian presidential race if his political demands are met by his main election rival, former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas, a Fatah official said on Wednesday.
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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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Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan, once seen as a possible successor to Yasser Arafat, said Tuesday he will not run in the Jan. 9 elections and instead endorsed the interim Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
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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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Jailed leader Marwan Barghouthi has  decided to quit the Palestinian presidential race, Al Jazeera  television reported on Sunday.