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| Fatah votes for its executive body, assembly | |
| 2009-08-10 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] The congress of the leading Palestinian party, Fatah, voted on Sunday for a new executive body and assembly filled with fresh faces to regain the lost trust of the Palestinian people. The movement led by the late Yasser Arafat for 40 years is seeking to throw off a reputation for corruption and cronyism that led to a stunning election loss to its Islamist rival Hamas in 2006. Hamas seized Gaza in a civil war a year later, splitting the Palestinian polity. The congress of 2,355 delegates in Bethlehem--Fatah's first in 20 years--began last Tuesday and was marked by reformists' charges of vote-buying and nepotism by the "old guard."
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| Posted by:Fred |