Palestinian Legislative Council

The Palestinian Legislative Council, the legislature of the Palestinian Authority, is a unicameral body with 88 members, elected from 16 electoral districts in the West Bank and Gaza. The election of 1996 resulted in the following distribution:

Fatah - 68 seats (47 official, 21 unofficial, classed as ‘Independent’),

Secular non-affiliated - 12 seats

Islamist non-affiliated - 7 seats

Palestinian Democratic Union - 1 seat

Since October 7, 2003, Ahmed Qurei, former Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, is currently Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority.

External link

MiddleEastReference.org: members elected in 1996

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