Lawmakers to file suit against PA over stalled elections

With Hamas and Jihads leaders detained tortured to death at Abbas's and Israeli Jails, and PA, exposed losing the Grounds on west bank, and the rift within fatah, Our "Commrades" feel that they have an exceptional chance to win the elections.

With Hamas's victory in mind, the PA cancelled the municipal election to avoid another surprise.

Via A4P

June 28, 2010 

Ma’an News Agency -  27 June 2010

Preparations are underway to file suit against the Palestinian Authority over the deferral of local elections in early June, a Palestinian lawmaker said Saturday evening.

Khalida Jarrar, representing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said the PA’s decision to stay elections and to create consensus lists were “against the principles of democracy and integrity.”

The PFLP official’s comments were made during a panel session organized by Palestinian leftist factions in Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank, where she called on Palestinians to hold rallies on the day elections were scheduled to take place, 17 July.

“The leftist bloc planned to form its own list to embody Palestinian democracy,” Jarrar said.

Faisal Al-Hindi, who intended to run for elections under a leftist coalition, said “Palestinians have the right to elect their representatives.”

On 10 June, the PA indefinitely postponed municipal elections on the set deadline for the submission of electoral lists to the Palestinian Central Elections Commission.

Hours after the news, the PA Ministry of Local Government issued an explanation, saying the decision came in response to the demands of some Arab nations and a number of “friends in the world.”

The calls from abroad advised the government to postpone “in order to pave the way for a successful end to the siege on Gaza and for continued efforts at unity,” the statement explained.

However, local elections were only set to take place in the West Bank, with the CEC saying it was unable to update Gaza’s voter registry owing to the siege and political rivalry.

According to the PA cabinet resolution the decision was based on “the powers invested in the cabinet by the local elections law and for the sake of public interest.”

In response, the CEC said it maintained “hope that the decision to postpone elections will not affect the democratic process in Palestine in which we take pride.”

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