Dahlan complicates Abbas' plans for Palestinian elections
The upcoming Palestinian elections are expected to stir a new confrontation between Fatah and Mohammed Dahlan’s movement should the reconciliation efforts exerted by some Arab countries fail to unify the Fatah movement.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — As soon as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued Jan. 15 the presidential decree setting the date for the general elections a clash erupted between Fatah and the movement led by dismissed Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan.
A day after the presidential decree was issued, Sufian Abu Zaida, a leader in Dahlan’s Democratic Reformist Current, expressed his current’s intent to participate, alongside the Fatah movement, in the elections with a unified list.
