Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints aide as PLO deputy | Palestinian Authority News

Hussein al-Sheikh is a veteran leader of Abbas’s Fatah movement and seen as a potential successor to him.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a close aide as vice president, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said.

Hussein al-Sheikh was named “deputy (vice president) of the PLO leadership,” Wasel Abu Yousef, a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, said on Saturday, in a move that positions al-Sheikh as a potential successor to Abbas.

Abbas, 89, created the…