Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has reportedly withdrawn his offer for resignation after talks with acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas.
A senior government official speaking on condition of anonymity said that Hamdallah made the decision following a “positive” two-hour meeting with Abbas on Friday.
PAâ„¢s spokesman Ihab Bseiso, however, said that the two would hold another meeting on Saturday.
“What we know so far is that there will be a meeting tomorrow (Saturday) evening between prime minister Hamdallah and president Abbas to continue discussions on this resignation,” he said.
Two weeks after taking office, Hamdallah on Thursday submitted his resignation to Abbas due to a Å“dispute over his powers” and Å“outside interferences in his powers and duties.”
Hamdallah is a British-educated professor of linguistics who has been president of al-Najah University in the occupied West Bank since 1998.
Analysts believe that Hamdallahâ„¢s offer to quit his post signals disarray within the Palestinian Authority.
Following the announcement, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said, Å“Hamdallah’s resignation indicates that unilateral steps remain weak, are useless and do not resolve the internal Palestinian problem … The solution is not in having many governments. It is in the implementing the reconciliation agreement.”
On June 6, Hamdallah replaced Salam Fayyad who resigned in April after a weeks-long row with Abbas’s Fatah party over his economic policies.
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This article originally appeared on: Press TV