Ziyad Rajoub, member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, stated that regional parties want to choose the new Fatah president by means of putting pressure on the movement.
In an exclusive interview with Al-Resalah.net yesterday evening, he said: “No force will be able to impose Mohammed Dahlan, the dismissed movement official, as leader of the movement without Fatah’s approval.”
He added: “There is no consensus on a specific individual who can succeed Abu Mazen as president of the movement, not even on Majid Faraj because he is not the second command in the movement. However, in a time crisis, Fatah is capable of producing an individual who will succeed the president.”
Another member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Adli Sadeq, had told Al-Resalah.net that there was an Egyptian offer to reconcile between Dahlan and Abbas, and that Dahlan had agreed to it conditionally.
In response to an answer regarding the UAE and Egypt’s support for Dahlan, Rajoub replied: “Fatah will decide who leads it, not the region. Everyone claims that Dahlan has the region in his pocket, but this is not the case.”
He also explained that choosing Abbas’s successor is the Fatah Central Committee’s job, and if it fails to do so, then the Revolutionary Council will intervene and select a successor.
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