{"id":49784,"date":"2019-11-10T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49784"},"modified":"2019-11-10T13:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T05:45:50","slug":"fatah-party-announces-abbas-as-its-only-candidate-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49784","title":{"rendered":"Fatah Party Announces Abbas As Its Only Candidate For President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RAMALLAH, Palestine, Nov 10 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, is Fatah&#8217;s &#8220;sole candidate&#8221; in the coming presidential elections, Fatah party announced in an official statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbas is also the chairman of Fatah&#8217;s Central Committee and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fatah&#8217;s announcement was made in a meeting held in Ramallah, chaired by Abbas&#8217; deputy, Mahmoud al-Aloul, which discussed holding the general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Chairman of the Central Elections Commission, Hanna Nasser and her delegation, are to visit the Gaza Strip, to resume dialogue with Hamas and other factions on holding the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, no date was set for the elections yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last elections were held in Jan, 2006, when the Hamas movement won an overwhelming majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbas was elected as chief of the Palestinian Authority, in the presidential elections, held in the Palestinian territories in Jan, 2005.&#8211; NNN-WAFA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, Palestine, Nov 10 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, is Fatah&#8217;s &#8220;sole candidate&#8221; in the coming presidential elections, Fatah party announced in an official statement on Saturday. Abbas is also the chairman of Fatah&#8217;s Central Committee and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee. Fatah&#8217;s announcement was made in a meeting held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,194,301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}