Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to call snap elections if a reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas is not reached by the end of this year.
He told members of his Palestine Liberation Organisation in Ramallah that he would issue a presidential decree early next year for simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections, if unity talks failed. The Islamist Hamas movement which controls Gaza pulled out of Egyptian-brokered unity talks with Abbas's secular Fatah faction earlier this month, accusing his security forces of rounding up its supporters in the West Bank.
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