Mahmoud Abbas Re-elected as Chairman of PLO Executive Committee

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas speaks outside the tomb of the late President Yasser Arafat during a celebration marking the fifty-third anniversary of the creation of the Fatah movement in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 31 December, 2017 [Thaer Ganaim/ApaImages]

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was re-elected as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation early Friday.

Abbas’s expected reappointment came at the end of a four-day meeting by the Palestinian National Council in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The PNC chose a new Executive Committee, the most senior body of the PLO.

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