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Palestinian PM Hamdallah reverses decision to step down
[Al Ahram] Paleostinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah on Friday withdrew an offer to quit a day after presenting it to president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , a high-ranking government official said. "Hamdallah met Abbas for two hours in the president's headquarters in Ramallah and informed him he had decided to withdraw his resignation," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Paleostinian officials and media had reported a "power struggle" as being the reason for Hamdallah's offer to quit, with the premier incensed by Abbas's decision to appoint two deputy prime ministers in a government that was formed on June 6. "Hamdallah wants clear and defined powers as prime minister and for his deputies, based on the law, so his authority is not encroached on," the official said, adding that the meeting had been "positive." The prime minister left the president's headquarters in a government convoy, an AFP correspondent said. Hamdallah presented his resignation on Thursday, only two weeks after taking office, in the latest crisis for the Paleostinian Authority. His appointment on June 2 had followed the resignation of his predecessor Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... , a Western-backed economist who quit after a spat with the Paleostinian president. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-22 |
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