Palestinian prime minister resigns

by admin
Apr 12, 2013
 
Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad announced his resignation today, following a weeks- long dispute with president Mahmud Abbas.
The dispute between the two stemmed from mounting concerns over Fayyad's economic policies for the ruling party, Fatah.
A Palestinian official told the Associated Free Press that despite United States efforts for him to stay,
"Fayyad met Abbas for half an hour in the president's headquarters in Ramallah in the West Bank and officially handed him his written resignation."
Although the international community credits Fayyad with building a sound institutional framework for Abbas' Palestinian Authority, the rival Hamas movement said the resignation was a result of "divisions within Fatah", and not related to the stalled talks on reconciliation between the two movements to form a united government.

Add new comment

About text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Global and entity tokens are replaced with their values. Browse available tokens.

Restricted HTML

  • You can align images (data-align="center"), but also videos, blockquotes, and so on.
  • You can caption images (data-caption="Text"), but also videos, blockquotes, and so on.
  • Global and entity tokens are replaced with their values. Browse available tokens.
  • You can embed media items (using the <drupal-media> tag).

We need your support

Sri Lanka is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. Tamil journalists are particularly at threat, with at least 41 media workers known to have been killed by the Sri Lankan state or its paramilitaries during and after the armed conflict.

Despite the risks, our team on the ground remain committed to providing detailed and accurate reporting of developments in the Tamil homeland, across the island and around the world, as well as providing expert analysis and insight from the Tamil point of view

We need your support in keeping our journalism going. Support our work today.

link button