The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas for issuing an unconstitutional decision through a court he formed to dissolve the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) affirming that the PLC is “the master of its own fate.”
“Dissolving the Legislative Council by the so-called constitutional court which was established by Abbas to pass and protect his arbitrary edicts is a decision without any constitutional or legal value and considered a politically motivated verdict that cannot change the reality” Hamas underscored in a statement on Saturday.
“The Legislative Council is constitutionally the master of its own fate and the constitutional court is an illegal body and what is established on illegal foundations is invalid” Hamas added.
“Instead of responding to the initiative recently made by head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haneyya on the national unity and ending the division as well as to the position of the national and Islamic factions Abbas is making a miserable attempt to impose his policies that aim to liquidate and terminate the Palestinian political system kill the political pluralism and destroy our people’s legitimate institutions in order to monopolize the Palestinian decision-making and eliminate the other national factions and prevent any efforts seeking to achieve unity and reconciliation” the Movement’s statement emphasized.
The Movement urged all factions and political forces from all spectra to take action against Abbas’s unconstitutional and irresponsible step against the PLC and its members.
It also affirmed its readiness to fight elections held concurrently and in accordance with national consensus for the PA presidency the Legislative Council and the National Council providing that Fatah should respect the results.
