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1st LD: Palestine's unity gov't to resign within coming 24 hours: source

Xinhua, June 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Tuesday that the unity government, which was formed in June last year, is to resign within the coming 24 hours, well-informed source said.

Abbas told a meeting of his Fatah Party's Revolutionary Council held in Ramallah that he will designate Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to form a new government, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Abbas didn't say why he decided to dismantle the current consensus government, but said, according to the source, "so far Hamas movement hasn't given us answers related to allowing the government to perform in Gaza."

Abbas said that he will put the file of the unity government before the upcoming meeting of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee to take the proper decision related to the fate of the government.

The unity government was sworn before Abbas in June last year in the West Bank city of Ramallah after an agreement reached between Hamas and the PLO on forming a technocrat unity government that puts an end to the internal split. Endit