GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to hold legislative elections within six months, the first since the last Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006. This comes in accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court, which Abbas announced Dec. 22 during the meeting of the PLO Executive Committee, providing for the dissolution of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and the holding of elections.
In a Dec. 23 statement, Hamas, which won a landslide victory in the 2006 elections, rejected the court’s decision, condemning it as “worthless.”