PA approves 36 candidate lists for elections

• Author: Elad Benari
• Published date: 05 April 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Groups had until Wednesday to submit their lists of candidates to contest in the May 22 legislative polls.

Individual names on each list are due to be published Tuesday, but the Palestinian electoral commission announced on its website that it had approved all 36 applications.

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement is contesting the polls, as is Hamas, which has run Gaza Strip since 2007.

Fatah placed the wife of the terrorist responsible for the murder of baby Shalhevet Pass in second place on its list in the PA parliamentary elections.

In 10th place on the official Fatah list is a convicted terrorist from Jenin who murdered Israeli citizen Motti Bitton in the early 1990s and was released in a "peace gesture" to Abbas in 2013.

In 15th place is a convicted terrorist from the Hebron area, who had been sentenced to life in prison before being released in the Jibril Agreement, only to be arrested again and sentenced to 15 years...