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August 6, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE57456G20090805

Old Guard "Hijacks" Fatah Congress, Say Reformers

[Reuters] Mohammed Assadi - The Fatah congress has been "hijacked" by the "old guard" who had packed it with delegates loyal to them in a bid to maintain the status quo, Palestinian reformers said on Wednesday. "We have been demanding to hold this congress for many years but this is not the congress that we dreamt of," said Qaddoura Fares, an advocate of modernization. The "old guard" added some 700 names to an initial list of 1,550 delegates, in what looked like a bid to pack the congress with likeminded people.

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