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PLO votes to create first-ever VP post
Bangkok Post
|April 26, 2025
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) voted on Thursday to establish the position of vice president, potentially paving the way fora successor to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
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The move follows years of foreign calls to reform the group, and comes as Arab and Western powers envision an expanded role for Mr Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) in the post-war governance of Gaza.
“A vote was held to create the position of vice president,’ Rizq Namoura, a member of the PLO’s central council, said in an interview with Palestine TV, adding the outcome was “almost unanimous” in favour of establishing anumber two role for the first time in the organisation’s history. The Palestinian official news agency Wafa confirmed the vote.
This story is from the April 26, 2025 edition of Bangkok Post.
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