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Palestinian 'cabinet to resign'
Palestinian 'cabinet to resign'
Shake-up of
cabinet has long been demanded by Salam Fayyad, the
Palestinian Authority PM, and other members of
Fatah.
Last Modified: 13 Feb 2011 21:39 GMT
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The cabinet of the Palestinian Authority (PA) will tender its resignation on Monday after which Salam Fayyad, the prime minister, will select new ministers, according to political sources.
The shake-up, disclosed on Sunday, has long been demanded by Fayyad and others in the Fatah faction.
Al Jazeera's Cal Perry, reporting from Jerusalem, said that the cabinet will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to decide about the resignations.
"The weekly cabinet meeting that usually takes place on Tuesday has been brought forward one day, and it seems likely that this reshuffle will take place."
The planned move follows the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, to a popular revolt that has set off calls for reform throughout the Arab world.
"There will be massive change in the composition of the government," one political source said of the planned resignations in the PA, which was formed under 1993 interim peace deals with Israel.
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