16 October 2009
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would hold elections as planned in January 2010 unless Hamas agreed to an Egyptian reconciliation deal that would delay the polls until June. "Our Basic Law stipulates that elections must be held before 24 January 2010," Abbas told a news conference after meeting Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. "According to the Egyptian document, elections should be held on 28th of June 2010. If there is an agreement [with Hamas] we will abide by it, but if there is no agreement we will abide by the Basic Law," the Palestinian president said.
Meanwhile, Egypt delayed the signing of a deal to heal the rift between Fatah movement and Hamas because of "new complications", an official in Cairo said on Friday.
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