Published: 23 April 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Palestinian groups to meet soon for final decision on holding election: official (Times of Israel)
Vote scheduled for May 22, but Ramallah demanding participation of East Jerusalem Palestinians; Abbas’s opponents say it’s an excuse to cancel
Palestinian elections: Abbas's calculated risk or gamble? (Jerusalem Post)
Abbas wants to stop the erosion. He wants the Palestinians to regain their centrality on the political agenda of Arab states and strengthen the PA's status in the regional and international arena
Abbas adviser: Palestinian elections ‘very likely’ to be postponed (Times of Israel)
Nabil Shaath says parliamentary vote scheduled for next month will be pushed off if Israel doesn’t allow ballot boxes in East Jerusalem
Rivlin, PA’s Abbas share Ramadan phone call, discuss ‘regional issues’ (Times of Israel)
Two leaders last publicly spoke on the phone in March 2020, during the early throes of the coronavirus crisis
Photo: President Abbas shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote during local elections at a polling station in Ramallah, October 2012. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
