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Palestine Elections
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- Palestine is to hold first national elections after 14 years in 2021.
- The three elections, parliamentary, presidential and National Council polls, will be conducted in the Palestine in 2021.
- Two Palestinian groups - Hamas and Fatah - have been against each other ever since Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from its rival in 2007.
- However, in September 2020, the two groups met in Turkey and agreed to hold parliamentary and presidential elections.
- President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to stay on as President of Palestine until the next election.
- But he is recognized as president only in the West Bank and not by Hamas controlled Gaza strip.
- The first-ever legislative and presidential elections of Palestine were held in 1996.
- The Palestinian National Authority has a multi-party system with Fatah being the dominant party.
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