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<h1 class="reader-title">82 Civil Society Organizations Send
Letter to Group of 77+1 Regarding Abbas’ Legitimacy</h1>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time"><span>January 16, 2019 </span></div>
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<p>82 civil society organizations in the Gaza Strip sent a
letter to the UN <a
href="http://imemc.org/article/abbas-assumes-chair-for-group-of-77-china/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener">Group of 77 + 1</a>,
stating that Mr. Mahmoud Abbas no longer has any legal
status in representing the Palestinian people and talk
in their behalf in accordance with the Palestinian Basic
Law, which set the term of office of the President only
four years, the period that ended for Mr. Abbas in 2009.</p>
<p>In accordance with Article 36 of the Palestinian Basic
Law and its amendments of 2005, which was approved by
Abbas himself, after his assumption of the presidency of
the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Abbas has been lacking
the constitutional legitimacy since 2009, but he has
been practicing the presidential duties for 10 years
after the end of his constitutional mandate, based on
illegal references and contrary to the Palestinian Basic
Law.</p>
<p>The letter stated, according to Al Ray Palestinian
Media Agency, that the PA president’s punitive measures
against civilians in the Gaza Strip caused their living
condition to deteriorate, and offered review of some of
these measures, such as the unlawful deduction of
salaries, the transfer of thousands of employees to
early retirement, in addition to depriving civilians of
passports, reducing Gaza’s share of medicines, stopping
medical referrals and demanding that Israeli authorities
stop supplying electricity to the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>The institutions that signed the letter stressed that
Abbas’s continued takeover of authority made him an
authoritarian ruler through his domination of all the
institutions of the Palestinian Authority and his
dissolution of the elected legislative council through
an illegal constitutional court, which caused a major
setback in the public freedoms in the West Bank, and led
to the collapse of the Palestinian political structure,
and contributed to the deepening of the Palestinian
division.</p>
<p>In its letter, the institutions called on the member
states of the Group of 77 and China to deal with Mr.
Abbas as a rapist of power, and not to grant any
legitimacy or cover for the tyranny and political
dictatorship he is practicing, stressing the lack of
constitutional status in his practicing of the functions
of the Palestinian presidency.</p>
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