Hamas denies receiving proposal from Abbas about holding elections

[ 06/02/2011 – 10:46 AM ]

 

GAZA, (PIC)– A senior Hamas official denied his Movement received a proposal from de facto president Mahmoud Abbas calling for referring to the ballot box instead of signing Egypt’s reconciliation paper.

“What was stated by a member of the Fatah Movement’s central committee in this regard, we have heard only from media outlets and we do not know the credibility of this news, for we cannot trust what Fatah leaders tell the media,” spokesman for Hamas’s parliamentary bloc Salah Al-Bardawil told the Palestinian information center (PIC) on Saturday.

Bardawil noted that the reconciliation paper did not belong to the Egyptian regime, but it was an inter-Palestinian issue, but Fatah at the end refused to deal with the remaining points in this paper and preferred to wager on the developments of its negotiations with the Israeli occupation.

He underscored that Hamas won the last legislative elections, but Abbas did not respect the results and utilized all forces of evil in the world to isolate and eliminate it, adding that the elections should be held in the framework of a national consensus if Fatah is really honest about its claims.

Abbas Zaki, a member of Fatah central committee, had claimed that Mahmoud Abbas made an overture calling on Hamas to refer to the ballot box and elections in order to end the internal division.

Hamas denies receiving proposal from Abbas about holding elections.

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