Palestinians Vote in Municipal Elections
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Description: Palestinians vote in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly 30 years. Officials say nearly 900 candidates are competing for more than 300 seats in this first of three rounds of municipal voting.
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the Gaza Strip in  decades, a test of strength between new President Mahmoud Abbas  and the militant Hamas group.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 24  - The mainstream Fatah party is on course to win most seats in the landmark Palestinian local elections despite a good showing by Hamas, according to partial and preliminary results Friday.
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Voters in the Gaza Strip go to the polls on Thursday in local elections in which Hamas militants are taking part.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Hamas Islamic militants  scored significant successes in Palestinian municipal  elections, the first contested by the group sworn to Israel's  destruction, initial results showed on Friday.
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Palestinians hold municipal elections in parts of the West Bank on Thursday, seen as a dress rehearsal for a presidential vote to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor next month.
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Seven candidates are contesting the Palestinian presidential elections on Jan. 9. They are:
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More than one million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have registered to vote in upcoming municipal and general elections, officials said Thursday, completing
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ABU DIS, West Bank : Palestinians voted in the first council elections for three decades amid a row over British Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s plan to prepare the birth of a democratic state at a London conference.
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Ramallah, West Bank -- Confounding cynics, the Palestinians have embarked on an election process that could make history as the first truly democratic ballot ever held in the Arab world.
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DAHARIYA, West Bank -- Thousands of Palestinians voted yesterday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in 28 years, with the Islamic group Hamas vying for political power for the first time against Fatah, the main faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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The radical Islamic Hamas movementdid well in the first round of the Palestinian municipal elections,official results which was announced in Ramallah on Sunday showed.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted in  their first-ever municipal elections on Thursday in a test of  support for President Mahmoud Abbas and rival Islamist groups  ahead of Israel's withdrawal from the occupied territory.
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Palestinians are electing a successor to their late leader, Yasser Arafat.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted on  Sunday for a successor to Yasser Arafat and were expected to  elect Mahmoud Abbas, who has promised to revive peace talks  with Israel after years of bloodshed.
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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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Hamas swept seven out of 10 councils in first-ever Gaza Strip local elections seen as a test of strength between the Islamic militant group and new President Mahmoud Abbas, final results showed on Friday.