Abbas suspends PA law

Abbas suspends PA law, designs laws to fit “illegitimate” emergency government

GAZA, (PIC)-- PA chief Mahmoud Abbas has issued another decree suspending a number of articles in the PA basic law that disallow him of pursuing his wrong steps in forming an emergency government without approval from the PLC.

According to the edict, articles 65, 66, and 67 of the law will be suspended, making the “illegitimate” emergency government free of confidence vote in the PLC, which many legal observers opined violates essential basis of the PA constitution.

The suspended article 65 of the PA basic law stipulates that the commissioned PA premier has only three weeks to set up his government in addition to two additional weeks as a grace period if he failed to finalize everything within the first three weeks, and if he still failed to carry out the mission within the specified period, he will be replaced.

However, article 66, which is also an essential article, obliges the new premier to call for a session for the PLC in order to get its confidence before he and his cabinet are authorized to assume duties.

Article 67 stipulates that the premier after obtaining the PLC confidence must be sworn-in before the PA chief.

By suspending those binding articles, Abbas transgressed the PA basic law and violated its basic articles in order to fit his own desire.

Meanwhile, the “illegitimate” emergency cabinet was indeed sworn-in by Abbas in Ramallah city Sunday without the PLC confidence, making it an “illegitimate” government based on the PA constitution.

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