Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas does not want the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) to exercise its role, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said yesterday.
In a press statement, Zahar said: “The PLC was supposed to convene to exercise its role and give confidence to the government one month after its formation but as yet, the council has not met.”
Zahar said that Abbas insisted on postponing the council’s meeting.
He stressed that the Palestinian deputies will not accept Abbas’s policy, “especially after it became clear that the government has not implemented any of the items that have been agreed upon”.
PLC Deputy Speaker Ahmed Bahar announced last week that the council will resume its sessions in Gaza.
Bahar said: “The council’s sessions have been suspended for more than seven months in order to achieve reconciliation and the signing of the Beach Agreement.”
He pointed out that the council, with all its members in Gaza and the West Bank, were scheduled to meet a month later or on 15 November at the latest but the meeting did not take place.
Bahar said the Palestinian unity government was supposed to gain the PLC’s confidence, however the president did not fulfil his obligations to allow the PLC to meet and the government did not fulfil its responsibility to the enclave, therefore we decided to resume the council’s sessions.
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