GAZA, (PIC)-- Ayman Taha, a Hamas leader, has denied that his movement had asked for postponing the local elections in the West Bank via the Arab League, describing the statement as a sheer lie.
Taha in a press release on Monday said that Hamas's position was clear since the beginning, as it said it won't take part in the elections because they would only deepen inter-Palestinian rift and because they were illegitimate as they were called for by the illegitimate government of Salam Fayyad.
He said that delaying the elections was due to Fatah's failure to agree on a unified list and its conviction that it would lose.
Adnan Al-Damiri, a spokesman for the security militias in the West Bank, claimed that Hamas asked for the adjournment to give reconciliation process a chance.
Meanwhile, around 500 Palestinians staged a sit-in before the office of Fayyad's government in Ramallah on Monday protesting the suspension of elections scheduled for 17/7/2010.
Eight Palestinian factions in the PLO called for the sit-in to protest the delay, saying that it ignored the efforts by thousands of activists.
They said in a statement that the incident was a "serious precedence" that infringed on the citizens' right to elect their representatives.
Palestinian factions charged Fatah faction with championing the delay due to its failure to register its lists.
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