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Abbas weighs early poll if government talks fail
09 Dec 2006 14:35:50 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Israeli-Palestinian conflict

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will call an early presidential and parliamentary election if he fails to form a new government to replace a Hamas-led coalition boycotted by the West, a senior Palestinian official said on Saturday.

Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's decision-making body, spoke to Reuters after the group deliberated how Abbas should proceed after he declared talks with Hamas for a unity coalition had hit a dead end.

"If there is a political impasse, he will call for early presidential and parliamentary elections," Abed Rabbo said.


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