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The conference administration announced that the voter turnout for the elections of the Central Committee and the Revolutionary Council of the movement reached 94.64 percent, with 2,507 voters.

The eldest son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Abbas, won membership in the Central Committee, Fatah's top leadership body, in elections held yesterday, Saturday, at the conclusion of the movement's general conference in Ramallah, Gaza, Cairo, and Beirut.

Yasser Abbas (64), a businessman who owns several companies operating in various sectors in the Palestinian territories and spends most of his time in Canada, has come to the political fore since his appointment about five years ago as the 'Special Representative of the President'.

According to preliminary results released early Sunday, Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been imprisoned in Israeli jails since 2002, retained his seat on the committee and won the highest number of votes.

Vice President of the Palestinian Authority and the PLO Hussein al-Sheikh, Fatah Vice President Mahmoud al-Aloul, former Secretary of the Central Committee Jibril Rajoub, and former Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfiq Tirawi retained their seats on the committee.

Among the new members elected to the committee are Palestinian intelligence chief Majed Faraj and Zakaria al-Zubaidi (50), a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the military wing of Fatah in Jenin camp, who was released from Israeli prisons as part of a prisoner exchange between Tel Aviv and Hamas in 2025.

The conference administration announced that voter turnout for the Central Committee and Revolutionary Council elections reached 94.64 percent, with 2,507 voters.

59 members competed for 18 seats on the committee, and 450 members competed for 80 seats on the Revolutionary Council.

Conference Executive Director Munir Salama announced that the final results of the Central Committee and Revolutionary Council elections would be announced later Sunday morning at a press conference in Ramallah.

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The work of Fatah's general conference began last Thursday, and it witnessed the re-election of Mahmoud Abbas as the movement's president. Abbas has headed the movement, the Authority, and the PLO for more than two decades.

He pledged at the emergency Arab summit held in Cairo on March 4 to 'restructure the leadership frameworks of the Palestinian state and inject new blood into the PLO, Fatah, and state institutions'.

Since then, Abbas has made administrative changes, most notably within the security apparatuses.

Several Arab and international parties are calling for reforms within the Palestinian Authority, which suffers from stagnation in democratic political movement, in preparation for handing over the administration of Gaza after the war. This demand for reforms was included in US President Donald Trump's peace plan for the sector, and the Authority faces criticism related to corruption and lack of legitimacy.

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