GAZA (PIC) — The PA legislature has urged PA chief Mahmoud Abbas to set aside the recommendation made by the PLO’s executive committee to go to early presidential and legislative elections and not to deal with that recommendation at all.
In a press statement it issued Sunday the PLC highlighted the importance of respecting legitimacy of the Council and not to transcend it in any affair that directly affects lives of the Palestinian people who elected it.
The legislature in this regard affirmed that holding early legislative election if it indeed happened would constitute a grave constitutional breach and an obvious undermining of the Palestinian people’s will.
“No party in the Palestinian arena can take decisive decisions unilaterally without securing unanimity of all Palestinian factions and parliamentary blocs” the Council asserted.
The independent MP and PLC’s second deputy-speaker Hassan Khuraisha accused what he labeled “internal parties” of striving to sideline the legislature in serious matters affecting the fate of the Palestinian people.
“Members of the PLC who participated in the PLO’s executive committee weren’t representing the council’s stand; but they were only representing themselves and their political blocs” affirmed Khuraisha.
The unfortunate armed assault on the PLC building in Gaza city Saturday threw its shadows on the Palestinian street as PLC acting speaker Dr. Ahmed Bahar sent urgent letters to Abbas PA interior minister Sa’eed Siyam and Rashid Abu Shibak the director of PA internal security urging them to take all the necessary steps to protect the PLC institution and to prevent repetition of Saturday’s armed assault on it.
Elements of the PA preventive security national security and the presidential guards assailed the legislature headquarters in Gaza Saturday and peppered it with their machinegun bullets.
“This cowardice behavior led to suspending activities of the PLC and threatened lives of the lawmakers and employees” said Bahar.
Hayya’s three options to Abbas:
For his part Hamas’ lawmaker and head of the Movement’s parliamentary bloc in the PLC Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya held Abbas and his associates fully responsible for aborting talks on unity government. “The PA chief fired the last bullet on talks over the unity government” he pointed out.
“Abbas has three options to solve the current crisis in the Palestinian arena the first is to retain the current government which he commissioned and to unite with it in facing the siege; the second is to form a unity government based on the national harmony document taking into consideration parliamentary norms and the third is to resign if he wishes to do so” Hayya explained.
“Abbas doesn’t want a unity government and doesn’t recognize other Palestinian factions and results of the legislative elections that Hamas widely won last January” he charged.
The Hamas deputy reiterated his Movement’s absolute rejection to calls for early elections adding that Abbas hasn’t the authority to dissolve the PLC.
