An informed source told PNN that yesterday‘s meeting in Gaza City between President Mahmoud Abbas and the current and designate Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, was positive.
The new government will be ready next week, the source told PNN in Ramallah on Monday. “There is a committee of ministers in the new government that will work to formulate its political program. And the door is still open to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.”
It was confirmed that the Fateh party stands behind Dr. Ziyad Abu Amr as Foreign Affairs Minister to be calculated as part of its own quota and Dr. Salam Fayyad to resume his former position as Minister of Finance. Issues linger with the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while the Democratic Front, PPP and Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi are considered more or less stable in positions.
Regarding the contentious issue of the Minister of Interior, PNN‘s Fateh sources in Ramallah report that President Abbas is still refusing to accept the Hamas candidates.