Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has reportedly withdrawn his offer for resignation after talks with acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas.\n<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
PA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s spokesman Ihab Bseiso, however, said that the two would hold another meeting on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Two weeks after taking office, Hamdallah on Thursday submitted his resignation to Abbas due to a \u00c5\u201cdispute over his powers\u201d and \u00c5\u201coutside interferences in his powers and duties.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hamdallah is a British-educated professor of linguistics who has been president of al-Najah University in the occupied West Bank since 1998.\n<\/p>\n
Analysts believe that Hamdallah\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s offer to quit his post signals disarray within the Palestinian Authority.\n<\/p>\n
Following the announcement, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said, \u00c5\u201cHamdallah’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.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
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