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Hamas condemned the move as illegal and unconstitutional — although it left open the door for “‘consensual general elections’ in case Fatah pledges to accept their results whatever they are.”. In the West Bank, the PLC has two main buildings, one in Ramallah in the Ministry of Education, housing the Assembly Chambers, and the main administrative office of the PLC in al-Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah. After prolonged negotiations, they resulted in the first government of the Palestinian Authority (PA) led by Hamas. As of March 2019, there were 7 PLC members imprisoned by Israel, the majority of them held without charge or trial – these include Ahmad Sadaat (PFLP), and Marwan Bargouthi (Fatah). Palestinian women: Increase in Council representation not enough President Mahmoud Abbas amends election law, raising quota for women in Palestinian Authority legislature to … This significant milestone results from the profound challenges that Fatah and Hamas currently face. The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), also referred to as the Palestinian Parliament, is a unicameral body with 132 members elected from 16 electoral districts in the West Bank and Gaza. Pursuant to the PA's "1995 Elections Law No. The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is the unicameral legislature of the Palestinian Authority, elected by the Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Juni 2007 war er Außenminister der palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde und ist seit dem 2. In Gaza, the headquarters is in Rimal, Gaza City. This will start with elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the PA’s parliament, on 22 May; followed by those for the PA presidency on 31 July; and finishing with the formation of a new Palestinian National Council (PNC), the PLO’s parliament, by 31 August. The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) List is administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). CC BY-SA 3.0. The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has held its first session since the Israeli war on Gaza in December. In a press release, the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) said on Monday that we followed the developments taking place on the Palestinian arena, especially setting the dates for holding the legislative and presidential elections and the National Council, and the subsequent Egyptian invitation to the Palestinian factions to meet in Cairo. Januar 2006 statt. The Basic Law was amended in 2003. Fatah and Hamas had agreed in the 2014 Fatah–Hamas Agreements that the election for the third PLC take place sometime in 2014, but has been postponed because of continuing disagreements between Hamas and Fatah.[20]. Isolation from the outer world. The Palestinian Legislative Council was created by the Oslo Accords and designed in accordance with the provisions of the Oslo II Accord, which provides for its composition, powers and responsibilities in detail. [14], After the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, the Gaza-based Hamas PLC members would meet separately in Gaza, leaving each part of the PLC without a quorum. Business Medical Abbreviations Military Abbreviations Technology Slang Terms. Shortly after, Saeb Erekat called for the PLC to be replaced by a new “constituent assembly of the State of Palestine”. This page was last changed on 23 October 2020, at 16:23. [18][19], The 2006 election was the last Palestinian legislative election, though under the Basic Law the term of a PLC is four years. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Photo by Magister via Wikimedia Commons. Part 595), and the Foreign Terrorist Organizations Sanctions Regulations (31 C.F.R. Accordingly, the Palestinian Authority is not the government of the State of Palestine, but the self-government of the inhabitants of the territories. In January 2009, the Gaza headquarters was bombed during Operation Cast Lead. [38][39][40] The attacks were condemned by the UN Goldstone Mission, which called it a "grave breach of extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
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