Politics & Diplomacy
Abbas delays Palestinian legislative elections to September 2027
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas postponed legislative elections to September 2027, Al-Monitor reported Saturday. The decision confirms months of speculation that the vote would face further delay. Abbas has repeatedly postponed the elections since they were last held in 2006.
The postponement marks another setback for efforts to hold democratic balloting in Palestinian territories. Legislative elections have become increasingly contentious amid political divisions between the Gaza-based Hamas movement and Abbas's Fatah faction, which controls the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
