
Palestinian Legislative Council building
The 'Palestinian Legislative Council,' (sometimes referred to as the 'Palestinan Parliament') the
legislature of the
Palestinian Authority, is a
unicameral body with
132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts in the
West Bank and
Gaza.
The Palestinian Legislative Council passed a new law in June 2005 increasing the number of members from 88 to 132, stipulating that half be elected under a system of
proportional representation and half by traditional constituencies.
New parliamentary polls took place on
January 25,
2006.
Summary of 2006 election results
Ahmed Qurei, former
Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority from October 7, 2003 to January 26, 2006, when he resigned after Hamas' victory in the
2006 legislative election.
On
April 20, 2007, the acting
Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Ahmad Bahar, called for
Jews,
Americans, and their allies to be killed
"to the last."[1]
Current members
:''see main article
Current members of Palestinian Legislative Council''
Notes
1. Palestinian Media Watch, Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, April 30, 2007
See also
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Palestinian legislative election, 2006
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Palestinian legislative and presidential election, 1996
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Jamal Tirawi
External link
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MiddleEastReference.org: members elected in 2006