Palestinian legislative council called for introducing amendments to the Qurei' government

The Palestinian legislative council has called for amending the government of the prime minister Ahmad Qurei' during a meeting held yesterday to discuss reforms in the Palestinian Authority.

The parliamentary committee in charge of following up on reform recommended the need of "forming a government able to withstand challenges faced by our people and national authority." The chairman of the committee Abbas Zaki called while reading the recommendations of the committee on the legislative council to draw an urgent draft law to organize the work of various security departments in order to halt chaos.

Meantime, the secretary general of the central elections committee Ali al-Jarbawi announced yesterday the beginning of a campaign in Gaza to train employees on registering voters in various parts of the West Bank and Gaza in preparations for the Palestinian elections.

Al-Jarabawi said that 3,000 interim employees will work along two months in the operations of registering Palestinian citizens in order to take part in the Presidential, legislative and local elections.