Next Palestinian general election

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Palestinian National Authority

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Early presidential and parliamentary election to the Palestinian National Authority will be held as soon as the split between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip under PM Ismail Haniyeh and the Fatah-controlled West Bank under PM Salam Fayyad and President Mahmoud Abbas has been overcome, according to statements by Abbas.^[1] The elections would be due by 2009 (presidential) and 2010 (legislative) if not held early.^[2] The electoral law was changed from being half proportionally elected and half constituency/first past the post-based to full proportional representation in a bid to lessen Hamas' chances of winning the elections;^[3] while this has been criticised by Hamas as being illegal, face-to-face interviews of 1,270 Palestinian adults in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, conducted from Sept. 6 to Sept. 8, 2007, showed 53% in favor of the change, with a margin of error of 3 per cent.^[4]

Fatah renominated Abbas as their candidate for the next presidential elections in early June 2008.^[5]

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