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1st LD: Fatah elects new central committee, revolutionary council

Xinhua, December 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party announced Sunday the names of the newly elected members of the party's central committee and the revolutionary council.

Abdullah al-Ifranji, a senior Fatah official and former member of the party's central committee, announced that 18 new members of the committee and 80 new members of the revolutionary council had been elected.

He also said three additional members were named as eternal members of the central committee which has 22 members in total, including President Abbas who was named by the congress as the party chairman. Endit