2006 jan.26. 하마스 총선 승리.Hamas wins huge majority
132 의석 중, 하마스가 74석, 파타가 45석.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/1/26/hamas-wins-huge-majority
The Islamic group Hamas has won a huge majority in parliamentary elections, with Palestinian voters rejecting the long-time rule of the Fatah movement.
Ismail Haniyeh said the world need not fear Hamas
Published On 26 Jan 2006
26 Jan 2006
Of the 132 seats in Parliament, Hamas won 76 and Fatah 43, the election commission announced on Thursday.
Ahmed Qureia, the Palestinian prime minister, and his cabinet resigned, even before the official results were announced, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, was to ask Hamas to form the next government.
The top Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal, told Abbas his group is ready for a political partnership, Hamas said.
And in a first sign of pragmatism, Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas official, said the group would extend its year-old truce if Israel reciprocates. “If not, then I think we will have no option but to protect our people and our land,” he said.
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Saeb Erekat, the Fatah legislator, said the party does not want to join a Hamas government. “We will be a loyal opposition and rebuild the party,” Erekat said, after meeting Abbas.
But Nabil Shaath, another senior Fatah legislator, said the party’s leadership would make a decision later.
Abbas will remain president
Abbas will remain president
Abbas will remain president
Abbas was elected separately a year ago and remains president. However, the Palestinian leader has said he would resign if he could no longer pursue his peace agenda.
The cabinet and legislature must approve any major initiative by Abbas, giving Hamas tremendous influence over peace moves.
Hamas supporters streamed into the streets to celebrate.
In the southern Gaza town of Rafah, supporters shot in the air and handed out candy. Others honked horns and waved Hamas flags from car windows.
Hamas capitalised on widespread discontent with years of Fatah corruption and ineffectiveness. Much of its campaign focused on internal Palestinian issues, while playing down the conflict with Israel.
Mixed signals
Before the election, Hamas had suggested it would be content as a junior partner in the next government, thus avoiding a decision on its relationship with Israel.
What next?
Final results results are to be certified within twoweeks. During that time, participants may challenge results.
After final results are in, Mahmoud Abbas, the president
of the Palestinian Authority, begins consultations with
factions that are to enter the next parliament, then will tap a party to put together a government. That party will
have three weeks to put together a government, and can ask for a two-week extension.
The new Palestinian parliament is to be sworn in for a four-year term in March.
Abbas, elected last year to a four-year term, can remain in office. He has said he would step down if he cannot push
forward efforts to seek a peace deal with Israel.
Throughout the campaign, leaders sent mixed signals, hinting they could be open to some sort of accommodation with Israel. Its apparent victory will now force it to take a clearer position on key issues.
Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas candidate who won election in the northern Gaza Strip, said peace talks and recognition of Israel are “not on our agenda” but the group is ready for a partnership – presumably with Abbas.
Some Hamas officials tried to reassure the world of its intentions.
“Don’t be afraid,” Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, told the BBC. “Hamas is a Palestinian movement, it is an aware and mature movement, one which is politically open in the Palestinian arena, and to its Arab and Islamic hinterland, and similarly open to the international arena.”
This was the first time Hamas has contested a parliamentary vote.
Half the seats in Wednesday’s parliament vote were chosen on a national list and the other half by districts.
Advantage
Hamas apparently took advantage of divisions in Fatah: the long-ruling party fielded multiple candidates in many districts, splitting the Fatah vote.
“Hamas is a Palestinian movement, it is an aware and mature movement, one which is politically open in the Palestinian arena, and to its Arab and Islamic hinterland, and similarly open to the international arena”
Ismail Haniyeh,
Hamas leader
Hanan Ashrawi, the Palestinian legislator, who apparently was re-elected on a moderate platform, said the Hamas victory was a dramatic turning point.
She said she is concerned the fighters will now impose their fundamentalist social agenda and lead the Palestinians into international isolation.
She said Fatah’s corruption, Israel‘s tough measures and international indifference to the plight of the Palestinians were to blame for Hamas’s strong showing.
Turnout for Wednesday’s vote was heavy, with nearly 78% of 1.3 million eligible voters casting ballots. The polling stations were heavily guarded, and there were no reports of major violence.
132 의석 중, 하마스가 74석, 파타가 45석.
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Hamas celebrates election victory
Simon Jeffery and agencies
Thu 26 Jan 2006 18.40 GMT
Figures from Palestinian officials tonight confirmed Hamas's shock win in the Palestinian parliamentary election over the once-dominant Fatah party.
Polls had predicted a coalition between the two parties as the most likely outcome of the vote, but a surprise surge in support for the Islamists took a party that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel into power.
The preliminary count put Hamas on 76 seats to Fatah's 43 in the 132 seat chamber. The result could complicate hopes of a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. George Bush said the United States would not deal with a Hamas-led government unless the party recognised Israel's right to exist.
As the scale of the Fatah defeat became apparent, its officials conceded defeat and the Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, and his cabinet submitted their resignations. "This is the choice of the people. It should be respected," Mr Qureia told reporters.
The exit of the Qureia cabinet will change the wider politics of the region. Fatah, the party of Yasser Arafat and President Mahmoud Abbas - supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while the founding charter of Hamas commits it to the destruction of the Jewish state.
The Islamist faction, which is designated as a terrorist group by the US and EU, has not launched a suicide attack since February last year, but has also refused to renounce violence against Israel. Mushir al-Masri, who won a seat for Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip, insisted peace talks or recognition of Israel were not on its agenda.
Hundreds of Israeli civilians have died in nearly 60 Hamas suicide bombings.
Tonight the Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said he had called Mr Abbas to request a meeting so that they can decide on the future of the Palestinian government. "We want to meet with him to consult about the shape of the political partnership that we can achieve," Mr Haniyeh told reporters as he received well-wishers in the garden of his Gaza home. "Hamas will cooperate with everybody for the benefit of all the people."
But the poll could leave the Palestinian government without international recognition, and in Israel - where a general election is due to take place in March - it will be a key influence on the reshaping of the political terrain following Ariel Sharon's stroke.
Mr Bush said a party that advocated the destruction of Israel would never be partner for peace, but also hailed the result as an example of democracy in action.
"If there are people unhappy with the status quo they'll let you know. What was positive is that it is a wake up call to the leadership," he told a White House press conference.
"People are demanding honest government ... people want services, they want to raise their children in a decent environment."
Mr Bush said Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, was holding talks with the three other members of the international quartet backing the road map peace plan - the EU, UN and Russia - to work out a response to the Hamas win.
Ehud Olmert, the acting Israeli prime minister, said Israel could not trust a Palestinian leadership in which Hamas had a role. "Israel can't accept a situation in which Hamas, in its present form as a terror group calling for the destruction of Israel, will be part of the
Palestinian Authority without disarming," Mr Olmert told the US senator Joseph Biden, according to his office. "I won't hold negotiations with a government that does not stick to its most basic obligation of fighting terror."
Deep implications could be felt in the Palestinian territories themselves. As the single biggest aid donor to the Palestinian Authority, the EU's reaction to the result will determine whether the €500m from its 25 member states and common budget continue to be sent.
Israel's acting foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, asked the EU "to sound a clear voice explaining there will be no European understanding for a process in which a terror government is being set up."
Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, said in a statement that the election result had created "an entirely new situation which will need to be analysed".
