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2nd 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 re-elected by the congress as the party chairman.

"We present this success to the spirit of late leader Yasser Arafat who is buried a few meters from this congress and to our people who struggle and will keep struggling until gaining our freedom and our independence," President Abbas told the congress.

The five-day Fatah congress, attended by 1,320 members out of 1,411, kicked off on Tuesday at the Abbas headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

It is the second congress of the party that is held in the Palestinian territories since the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority in 1994.

The first congress was held in 2009 in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Endit