10 Oct 2023 1:16 pm
It's strong support, it's not majority support. My sympathies are muted by just how strongly they are supported.Kobia2 » 10 Oct 2023, 12:53 pm » wrote: ↑ This is from my post #31.....
These were the 2006 Election Results..... I am not aware of Gaza having some Electoral College system they go by, so in order to have won the majority of those seats, they would have had Majority support...
Hamas won 76 seats, excluding four won by independents supporting Hamas, and Fatah only 43.[140] The election was judged by international observers to have been "competitive and genuinely democratic". The EU said that they had been run better than elections in some members countries of the union, and promised to maintain its financial support.[136] Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates urged the US to give Hamas a chance, and that it was inadvisable to punish Palestinians for their choice, a position also endorsed by the Arab League a month later.[1
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Hamas Ismail Haniyeh 44.45 74 New
Fatah Farouk Kaddoumi 41.43 45 -5
PFLP Ahmad Sa'adat 4.25 3 New
The Alternative Qais Abd al-Karim 2.92 2 New
Independent Palestine Mustafa Barghouti 2.72 2 New
Third Way Salam Fayyad 2.41 2 New
Independents – – 4 -31
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