(Xinhua) -- A senior leader of the governing Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called on Sunday on Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas to resign, accusing him of being responsible for talk failure on national unity government. Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas block chief in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), made the call while talking with reporters, after the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)executive committee recommended to Abbas to call for early presidential and legislative elections to end the growing crisis and the embargo imposed on the Palestinians. | Abbas "is held responsible for the failure of the talks on forming the national unity government" and he should leave his post. Abbas wants "to drag the Palestinian people to his program." |
In a reaction to al-Hayya's call for Abbas' resignation, Nabil Amer, a top aid to Abbas, told reporters that "going for early elections or a referendum is the ideal solution to get out of the crisis that the Palestinians are facing." "Saying that the ballot is a coup d'etat on democracy is totally wrong, because all nations on earth go for early elections as soon as they reach to a deadlock and huge crisis," said Amer.