Mahmoud Abbas accepts resignation of new PA premier
Iran Press TV
Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:17AM GMT
Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has officially accepted the resignation of newly-appointed Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah.
“The president accepted the resignation of the prime minister and designated him to head an interim government,” Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdaineh said on Sunday.
A senior Palestinian Authority source also said that Abbas had made the decision “after he refused to work with two deputies.”
Two weeks after taking office, Hamdallah on June 20 submitted his resignation to Abbas due to a “dispute over his powers” and “outside interferences in his powers and duties.”
Hamdallah is a UK-educated professor of linguistics who has been president of Al-Najah University in the occupied West Bank since 1998.
Analysts believe that Hamdallah’s offer to resign signals disarray within the Palestinian Authority.
Following the announcement, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said, “Hamdallah’s resignation indicates that unilateral steps remain weak, are useless and do not resolve the internal Palestinian problem… The solution is not in having many governments. It is in the implementing the reconciliation agreement.”
On June 6, Hamdallah replaced Salam Fayyad, who resigned in April after a weeks-long row with Fatah party, led by Abbas, over the issue of economic policies.
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