Abbas entrusted Mohammed Mustafa with the task of forming the Government of the Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority has appointed Mohammed Mustafa as the new Prime Minister and entrusted him with the responsibility of creating a new cabinet for the government.
According to AJ, Palestinian circles have reported that: Abbas has appointed Mustafa and entrusted him with the responsibility of forming the government despite the opposition within the Fat-h movement.
Those Palestinian circles have also explained that Muhammad Mustafa is the choice accepted by the United States and some Arab countries.
In his statement announcing the appointment yesterday Alkhamisi, Abbas asked Mustafa to put together plans to reunify the administration in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip, lead reforms in the government, security agencies and the economy and fight corruption.
Mustafa replaces former Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh who, along with his government, resigned in February citing the need for change at this time of the brutal war of the Zionist regime of Israel against Gaza and the increase in sabotage and attacks by the Zionist army in The occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority government, recognized by the National Society and led by the Fat-h movement, has limited powers to run its own affairs in the West Bank, but lost control of Gaza to Hamas in 2007 after the Muqawama movement. emerge victorious in the Palestinian Parliament elections.
Representatives of the Fatah and Hamas movements are expected to meet in Moscow, Russia this week for talks.../
