Yasser Arafat20 January 1996
Wins the first Palestinian presidential election.
Palestine · Government / Palestinian Authority. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Wins the first Palestinian presidential election.
Abbas is elected President of the Palestinian Authority after the death of Yasser Arafat
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