<figure id="attachment_3273188" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3273188" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3273188" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/14d5bdd7-mahmud-abbas.jpg" alt="Mahmud Abbas" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3273188" class="wp-caption-text">President Mahmud Abbas issued a decree that elections would be held wherever possible, inside and outside Palestine for broad participation. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said elections will be held on Nov 1 for the Palestinian National Council, the parliament of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the official news agency Wafa reported Monday.
This is the first time members of the council will be elected by direct popular vote, while in the past they were appointed or co-opted from within the movement.
Abbas, who is president both of the Palestinian Authority and of the PLO, issued a decree saying that: &#8220;Elections will be held wherever possible, both inside and outside Palestine, to ensure the broadest possible participation of the Palestinian people wherever they reside&#8221;.
The PNC has long served as as the PLO&#8217;s parliament in exile. It is dominated by Fatah, Abbas&#8217;s political movement, which was co-founded by Yasser Arafat, the Palestinians&#8217; historic leader who died in 2004.
The Islamist movements Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which are not members of the PLO, are not represented in the council.

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Palestinian president Abbas calls first-ever PLO parliament elections

Council members will be elected by direct popular vote for the first time, instead of being appointed or co-opted internally.

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