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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Saturday that he welcomed the content of a message he received from the head of the political office of the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas”, Ismail Haniyeh, on “ending the division and holding elections.” .
The Palestinian presidency said on Saturday that President Mahmoud Abbas received a written letter from Haniyeh, which was delivered to him by the secretary of the Central Committee of the “Fatah” movement, Jibril Rajoub.
The official Palestinian news agency (WAFA) said its message to Abbas was “about ending division and building partnerships, and achieving national unity through democratic elections with full proportional representation, legislative and presidential elections, and a national council, respectively, and interdependence. “
The statement said Abbas “gave his instructions to Rajoub in informing Hamas of his welcome to the content of the message and his affirmation of Fatah’s commitment to the path of building partnerships and national unity.”
According to the statement, the Palestinian president decided to invite the head of the Central Electoral Committee, Hanna Nasser, to meet with him, to discuss the procedures to be followed to issue electoral decrees, in accordance with the law.
Abbas extended his thanks to Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, Russia and Jordan, who “contributed, with their good efforts, to build bridges of views.”
On Friday, Haniyeh revealed, in a statement, the existence of “new efforts to resume the national dialogue in order to achieve national reconciliation.”
Haniyeh said in the statement, “There are new efforts to resume the national dialogue in order to achieve reconciliation to achieve national unity,” without further details.
On November 16 and 17, the “Hamas” and “Fatah” movements met in Cairo; Discuss efforts to achieve internal reconciliation and end the division.
Prior to this, the two movements held a meeting last September in the Turkish city of Istanbul, during which they agreed on a “vision, which will be presented for a comprehensive national dialogue, with the participation of Palestinian forces and factions.”
However, the efforts subsequently stalled and the two movements exchanged accusations about who was responsible for obstructing the reconciliation efforts.
On November 25, Fatah said that the Palestinian reconciliation talks “were unsuccessful” due to disagreements with “Hamas” over the dates for the elections.
The last Palestinian elections for the Legislative Council were held in early 2006 and resulted in the Hamas movement winning the majority, while Mahmoud Abbas won a year earlier for the presidency.
