Date for Palestine elections
2005-01-08 17:27
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Interim Palestinian President Rauhi Fattouh issued a decree on Saturday setting July 17 as the date of long-delayed Palestinian legislative elections.
New elections had been expected to be held in May, but Fattouh said he changed the date because that would have interfered with high school and university exams. The last legislative elections were held in 1996.
Fattouh took over as caretaker president of the Palestinian Authority following the death of Yasser Arafat in November. He issued his decree one day before elections to choose a new PA president, which Mahmoud Abbas is expected to win in a landslide.
- AP