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Hamas candidates in election will not carry group’s name

August 26, 2016 at 11:25 am

Hamas will not submit candidates in its own name for upcoming Palestinian municipal elections scheduled for October, the movement said.

“Instead the movement will present academic lists, professionals, experts, people recognised for their role in the administration or for international relations,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told AFP.

The movement will determine which candidates to support after the Central Election Commission announces the lists of candidates.

Meanwhile, Fatah’s Gaza spokesman Fayez Abu Eita told reporters that the party had “submitted lists of candidates for all municipalities in the Gaza Strip to the electoral commission” on the last day of registration.

The commission will announce the names of official candidates on 29 August.

This is the first time that municipal elections will take place since 2007.