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Election

Palestine · Politics / PLO. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1993–2005Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1993

Yasser Arafat4 May 1993

Oslo · Politics / PLO

In order that the Palestinians should govern themselves according to democratic principles, free and general political elections would be held for the Council

2005

Mahmoud AbbasJanuary 2005

Politics / PLO

Elected President with 62.3% of the votes cast

Names involved

Mahmoud AbbasYasser Arafat

Provenance

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