Politics & Diplomacy
Palestinian reform faction calls Kuwait council vote "disguised appointment
Image credit: Shehab Wire (EN)
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Dimitri Diliani, a member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council and spokesman for the Democratic Reform Current within the movement, told Shehab Wire that the Palestinian National Council election held in Kuwait functioned as indirect appointment disguised as democratic voting. Diliani characterized the mechanism as engineered under arrangements by Mahmoud Abbas.
The criticism exposes deepening rifts within Fatah over how the council's membership was determined and selected. The objection signals resistance from reformist elements in the faction to the legitimacy of the voting process and raises questions about whether the Kuwait election met basic standards for representative selection among Palestinian political groups.
