Mahmoud Abbas announces successor

Last Updated on December 1, 2024 5:56 am

Mahmoud Abbas has been serving as the President of Palestine since 2005. He is currently 89 years old. In this situation, he is suffering from various old-age related problems. Naturally, the question is; who will be the next president of the country if he dies for some reason? When the question is in the public mind, President Abbas himself has given the answer. He said who will be his successor if he dies or leaves office.

President Abbas has announced that a temporary or interim person will sit in the presidential chair for three months as his successor. According to him, the chairman of the Palestinian National Council can take over as interim president in his place. The current president is Rawhi Fattuh (75).

President Abbas made these statements in a statement on Wednesday. Without directly naming Rawhi Fattuh, he said that the chairman of the National Council will take over the presidential chair on an interim basis. His responsibility will be to elect a president within three months and hand over the responsibility.

Rawhi Fatah, who briefly served as a stopgap leader after Yasser Arafat’s death in 2004, is widely expected to succeed President Abbas, as he has no deputy who could fill the role.

Abbas’s popularity has waned recently. He has held the position since being elected president of Palestine for a four-year term in 2005. There have been no elections in between. Moreover, many people no longer want him as president because of the ongoing war. A September poll found that 89 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank want Abbas to step down.