Hamas rejects the postponed of the election
Palestine, Politics, 5/13/2005

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas rejected the calls made to postpone the legislative elections due on July 17, stressing that this will not serve general interests.

In a special statement issued on Thursday, Hamas called for carrying out the elections in their set time and to abide by the decisions of the national consensus achieved in Cairo, stressing that the next elections will be important in order to correct the Palestinian internal situation and eliminate all formed of corruption, noting that "postponement ( of the elections) serve minor group."

The statement urged the Egyptian government, which supervised the dialogue between the Palestinian groups, to take its due role to carry out the legislative elections at the set time.

Hamas's statements came after the call made by the secretary general of the Palestinian Presidency Abdul Raheem on Thursday to postpone the elections for legal and political reasons which he described as logical, noting that the introduction to amending the election law which will be approved by the legislative council states to amend the constitution of the Palestinian authority.

However, parliamentarians at the Palestinian legislative council say that the Fatah movement, which dominates the parliament, hopes to postpone the elections so as to be able to launch it in a better atmosphere after it had recently won the municipal elections.

Observers stress that Fatah fears the retreat of popularity for Hamas's interests which will take part for the first time in the legislative elections.

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