Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Photo: wiki commons.

JPost – Buoyed by a series of victories in elections for student councils and professional unions, Fatah representatives over the weekend urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to replace Prime Minister Salam Fayyad with a Fatah official.

In the past few weeks, supporters of Fatah scored major victories in elections for student councils at four universities in the West Bank: Bir Zeit University north of Ramallah, Bethlehem University, Al-Quds University in Abu Dis and Hebron University.

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