Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told the election committee overseeing parliamentary vote to prepare for the possibility that the January 25 elections will be postponed, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Sunday.
The daily said that senior PA officials confirmed that although no official announcement has been made, there is an intention to delay the elections for several weeks.
"The officials also said that the new Palestinian elections law will be changed in the near future, from a mixed system, in which half of the 132 members are chosen in regional elections and the other half in individual races under the proportional method, to a system in which all seats are to be won by the proportional method", according to Haaretz.
Haaretz said that the officials added that Fatah is behind the initiative to delay and change the election system.
