Appointing Sheikh as Abbas’s vice president entrenches political monopoly – Middle East Monitor

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) stated that the decision of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee to approve the appointment of Hussein Al-Sheikh as vice president was a response to external dictates and an entrenchment of monopoly and exclusion.

In a press statement issued yesterday, Hamas said it considered this a reprehensible step, one that departs from national consensus and the will of the Palestinian people.

It stated that…