Israel Palestine The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has a new government sworn in under the leadership of his close adviser Mohammed Schtaje. He is the successor of prime minister Rami Hamdallah, who in January resigned.
Abbas, the new government yesterday ingezworen in Ramallah, on the West Bank. The economist Schtaje in the United Kingdom studied and led, so far, the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR). In the past, he was also a negotiator at the peace talks with Israel. Schtaje is considered to be a supporter of a two-state solution in the conflict with Israel.
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The new government has no representatives of the radical islamic Hamas, that the boss is in the Gaza strip. The Central Committee of Fatah, which is on the west Bank, had in January recommended a new government from the factions of the Palestinian liberation organisation (PLO). This were official attempts terminated for Fatah to reconcile with Hamas.
Became
Since 2006, there are no elections anymore in the Palestinian territories. In 2014, a new government formed under Hamdallah. In 2017 had Hamas and Abbas’ Fatah agreed to a reconciliation after more than a decade of became. Hamas agreed to the control over the Gaza strip. That plan, however, fails.
At the last parliamentary elections in 2006 won by Hamas, which a year later, with violence the full control over the Gaza strip. Israel, the US and the EU designate Hamas as a terrorist organization.
