The Palestinian Authority election for a new President to replace Yasser Arafat is due to take place on January 9 2005. Marwan Barghouti, described as a leader of the younger Fatah activists has announced his intention to challenge Mahmoud Abbas.
I am unfamiliar with the technical side of these elections so I have been doing some background reading.
For information from official Palestinian sources about the election process follow this link:
Various reports from:
Msnbc, Washington Times, Al Jazeera, and the Jerusalem Post.
For critical views about the likelyhood of elections taking place on schedule and fairly, as well as difficulties registering voters:
Newsday
Little Green Footballs
Global Security
The Australian
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment