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Jailed Palestinian wins top Fatah post: results
Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:34am EDT
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By Mohammed Assadi and Mustafa Abu Ganiyeh
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Marwan Barghouthi, jailed for life in Israel on charges of organizing the killing of Jews, was elected to a top post in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group on Tuesday, initial results showed.
But former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, a top negotiators during the 1993 Palestinian-Israeli Oslo peace deal and latterly in peace talks with Israel, surprisingly lost his seat.
"This is an unexpected result. It's a big change, a huge change," said Naser al-Kidwa, the nephew of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who also won a Central Committee seat.
Barghouthi, 50, who denies the charges, is a popular and articulate figure among many Palestinians and was once seen as a successor Arafat, a main founder of the secular Fatah movement.
Only four of 10 members from Fatah's "old guard" kept their seats in the 18-seat executive Central Committee in the first elections in 20 years, according to non-official results.
About a dozen members won a seat on the Central Committee for the first time, including two former senior security officials, Mohammed Dahlan and Jibril Rajoub.
Abbas has said the party, holding its first election on Palestinian soil, needed to show disillusioned voters a new beginning.
ABBAS UNOPPOSED
The movement headed by Arafat for 40 years before his death in 2004, wants to shed a reputation for corruption and cronyism that led to a stunning 2006 election loss to its Islamist rival Hamas, which opposes peace with Israel.
Hamas seized the Gaza Strip in a civil war a year later, splitting the Palestinian independence movement.
The Fatah congress began last Tuesday with more than 2,000 delegates attending in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Most of its proceedings have been held behind closed doors.
Results of the other key Fatah body, the 128-seat Revolutionary Council, are expected to be announced later on Tuesday where younger Fatah members are expected to fill places of elderly members.
Abbas, 74, was unanimously reaffirmed unopposed as leader in a show of hands on Saturday that made it impossible to tell if there was opposition to his leadership.
Critics said he is weak and that the congress may not strengthen his position as not all the newcomers are on good terms with the Palestinian president.
Fatah says it is ready negotiate a peace deal with Israel but it is struggling to reverse a decline in popularity among Palestinians. Abbas currently has no vice-president and no natural successor appears to be waiting in the wings. Continued...
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