INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Palestinian leadership authorized the development of the position of vice president of Mahmoud Abbas, and potentially his follower, on
Thursday, an action extensively seen as needed to assuage worldwide doubts over Palestinian leadership.A declaration released by state news
agency WAFA said 170 members of the Palestinian Central Council, the Palestinians highest decision-making body, enacted favour of the
choice, while one member voted against it and another stayed away, Reuters reported.They have actually not right away designated somebody to
According to the declaration, Abbas has the right to assign tasks to the deputy, alleviate him of his post, or accept his resignation.Abbas,
89, has actually headed the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) considering that the death of veteran
leader Yasser Arafat in 2004 however has for years withstood internal reforms, consisting of the identifying of a successor.The
Western-backed Palestinian Authority exercises limited guideline in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and has actually not governed Gaza given
that battling a civil war with Hamas in 2007
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