Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to commission Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to conduct a ministerial amendment to the unity government is a “coup” against the reconciliation agreement, Hamas said yesterday.
The group’s spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a press statement that the movement rejects Abbas’s decision to conduct ministerial amendments that are not agreed upon by the government, considering it a coup against the reconciliation agreement.
The PLO Executive Committee said, after a meeting in Ramallah, that Abbas informed it that he commissioned Hamdallah to introduce a slight change to the ministers in the unity government.
Executive Committee Ahmed Majdalani told Palestinian state radio that the reshuffle would apply to the interior, economy and agriculture ministries which currently lack ministers. Majdalani said that the reshuffle might also include another ministry or two in order to improve the government’s performance.
He said that the change that will be introduced to the unity government is “technical, not political” so it does not require consultations with Hamas.
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