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Article: Abbas: I'll not seek re-election.
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- Aljazeera.net
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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11/5/2009 6:58:51 PM
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will not seek re-election at presidential elections he has called for January saying he had had enough after years of frustration fighting for an independent homeland.
"I have told our brethren in the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organisation] ... that I have no desire to run in the forthcoming election," Abbas said on Thursday in a speech broadcast live from his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
"This decision is not a kind of compromise or a manoeuvre," he said, adding that he was not willing to debate the issue, rejecting moves to dissuade him from standing ...