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Article: Thumbnails of possible contenders for Palestinian Authority president
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- November 21, 2004
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The Associated Press
AP Worldstream
11-21-2004
A brief list of possible contenders for Palestinian Authority president. Some have only said they are considering a bid and none have formally announced yet since the period for registering as a candidate begins only this weekend.
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Mahmoud Abbas, 69: interim Palestinian leader, head of the PLO, and expected to be nominated next week by the ruling Fatah party as the presidential candidate. Abbas, a former prime minister under Yasser Arafat, is a pragmatist who opposes violence. However, his views on a final peace deal with Israel are identical to those of Arafat: a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, and a fair ...