Mahmoud Abbas prepares his succession
The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, issued a decree on Wednesday establishing the terms of the interim to open the day his position becomes “vacant”, and which de facto excludes Hamas from business during this transitional period .
In the current state of Palestinian legislation, it is the president of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC, Parliament) who takes the reins of the Palestinian Authority in the event of a vacancy in power.
But the CLP, where Hamas had the majority, no longer exists since Mahmoud Abbas officially dissolved it in 2018 after more than a decade of tensions between his party, Fatah, and Hamas, which had ousted the Authority Palestinian from power in Gaza in 2007.
Aged 89, Mahmoud Abbas, who retains power without ever having submitted to an election by universal suffrage since the expiration of his mandate at the head of the Palestinian Authority in December 2009, has so far resisted all pressure urging him to appoint a heir apparent or to appoint a vice-president.
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