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Article: Roundup: Hamas vows to bar elections in Gaza

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Roundup: Hamas vows to bar elections in Gaza

by Saud Abu Ramadan

GAZA/RAMALLAH, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Islamic Hamas movement vowed on Wednesday to prevent the organization of Palestinian elections in the Gaza Strip, in response to President Mahmoud Abbas' insistence on holding them on Jan. 24, 2010.

The Interior Ministry of the deposed Hamas government in Gaza said that the ministry would prevent the elections in Gaza, whether presidential or legislative, and also bar the Central Elections Committee (CEC), which has five offices in Gaza, from acting.

The Interior Ministry rejects the elections because "they were declared by a figure who doesn't have the right to declare and because they ...

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