Abbas appoints new PA prime minister
Iran Press TV
Sun Jun 2, 2013 9:14PM GMT
Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas has appointed Rami Hamdallah, a senior academic, as the authority's next prime minister.
The official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, announced the appointment on Sunday.
Hamdallah replaces Salam Fayyad who resigned in April after a weeks-long row with Abbas's Fatah party over his economic policies. Fayyad formally leaves office later this month.
Hamdallah is a British-educated professor of linguistics who has been president of al-Najah University in the occupied West Bank since 1998.
The Gaza-based Hamas movement, which won the 2006 general elections but was later pushed aside by rival Fatah, said the appointment of a new prime minister without their consultation was not a legal move.
'This Cabinet does not represent the Palestinian people,' said Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nunu.
'The status of the new Cabinet is illegal,' he added.
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