The Palestinian Prime Minister, the economist Mohamad Mustafa, introduced this Thursday to President Mahmoud Abbas the composition of a new government with 22 ministers, together with at the least three girls, and during which He himself will head the Foreign Affairs portfolio.
“The prime minister-designate, (*22*) Mustafa, introduced the work program and the composition of the government to President Mahmoud Abbas,” the official Wafa information company reported this Thursday, “consequently, the president issued a decree legislation granting confidence within the nineteenth government and issued a decree approving its formation.”
The new cupboard will probably be sworn on this Sunday, March 31, and in its program one of many priorities is the Gaza Strip (regardless of not governing there de facto), together with a plan to enhance humanitarian support entry and the reconstruction of the enclave, in addition to making a steady Palestinian Authority, because it has been reviled by nearly all of Palestinians for years.
Mustafa will occupy the place of Minister of Foreign Affairs, changing Riyad Al Malki; whereas Zyad Mahmoud Mohamed will function Minister of the Interior and Omar Akram Al Bitar, former government for the Middle East of one of many massive international consulting corporations, PricewaterhouseCoopers, will probably be Minister of Finance.
Sharhabel Yusef Sad Edin will function Minister of Justice and Majid Awni Mohamed Abu Ramadan in Health, based on the official listing. Among the ministers, Mona Muhamad Mahmoud al Jalili will lead the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Ahed Faeq Atef Bseiso will probably be answerable for Public Works and Housing. Samah Abdel Rahim Hussein Hamad will probably be Minister of Social Development.
A extra technocratic government
On March 14, President Abbas appointed Mustafa as prime minister of the ANP, who controls the occupied territory of the West Bank in a fragmented approachand commissioned him to kind a new Government after the resignation two weeks earlier of your entire cupboard collectively with the then Prime Minister, Mohamed Shtayeh.
Shatyeh’s resignation was understood as a part of Abbas’s efforts to reform the ANP with a technocratic government that can take management of the Gaza Strip when the warfare within the Palestinian enclave ends, one thing that’s sooner or later plans of the United States however not in these of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
The ANP dominated the Gaza Strip till 2007, when Hamas forcibly took energy within the enclave after makes an attempt to kind a nationwide unity government with Fatah failed, after the Islamist group received the 2006 legislative elections.
Although weakened and with none affect in Gaza – in December 2023 a 60% of Palestinians supported the dissolution of the ANP and 92% the resignation of Abbas, based on the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research – the ANP is the one entity accepted by Israel and a big a part of the worldwide neighborhood as an interlocutor for the Palestinians.
