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Hamas: The Constitutional Court is “illegal”

Monday 17-October-2016

Hamas Movement said in a statement issued Monday evening that the Palestinian Constitutional Court and its decisions are illegal.
The Constitutional Court is an institution made by Mahmoud Abbas and affiliated to Fatah Movement.
All decisions issued by the Constitutional Court have no legal basis the statement said.
Last April Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has established a constitutional court that analysts say concentrates more power in his hands and may allow him to sideline the other candidates in case of any vacancy in the post of Palestinian Authority president.
Critics say the body is packed with jurists from Abbas’s Fatah party and risks deepening Palestinian political division.
The court has earlier issued a decision to hold the municipal elections in the West Bank only without Gaza Strip before the whole election process was cancelled by a governmental decision.

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