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-- The cabinet of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad tendered its resignation Monday, a government spokesman said.
Fayyad is meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas, who is expected to accept the resignation and ask him to form a new government, according Dr. Ghassan Khatib.
Abbas has been discussing the possibility of a government shakeup for several months following various allegations of corruption and incompetence in some ministries, according to Palestinian officials.
The move comes just two days after Abbas' government announced that it would hold legislative and parliamentary elections before September in a bid to promote political reconciliation and "satisfy the will of the Palestinian people"
The Palestinian Authority government consists of 24 cabinet positions, of which only 16 are currently filled.
Even before the aftershocks of the political earthquake in Egypt began in the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinian Authority government was under increasing pressure and public criticism.
Negotiations with Israel broke down months ago.
And last month, Al-Jazeera published secret Palestinian negotiating papers that revealed some of the wide-ranging concessions Palestinian officials were willing to make in 2008 in talks with Israel.
Among the concession were details of a willingness to trade away huge swaths of East Jerusalem and extensive limits on the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes in what is now Israel.
These details and others prompted a torrent of criticism from Palestinians and led to the resignation of long time Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat this past weekend.
On Monday, former employees of the Palestinian Negotiations Support Unit, which was the department charged with overseeing negotiations with Israel, said it had been disbanded.
Erakat was the head of the office.
It was not immediately clear which part of the Palestinian Authority government would be responsible for future negotiations.
Fayyad is meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas, who is expected to accept the resignation and ask him to form a new government, according Dr. Ghassan Khatib.
Abbas has been discussing the possibility of a government shakeup for several months following various allegations of corruption and incompetence in some ministries, according to Palestinian officials.
The move comes just two days after Abbas' government announced that it would hold legislative and parliamentary elections before September in a bid to promote political reconciliation and "satisfy the will of the Palestinian people"
The Palestinian Authority government consists of 24 cabinet positions, of which only 16 are currently filled.
Even before the aftershocks of the political earthquake in Egypt began in the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinian Authority government was under increasing pressure and public criticism.
Negotiations with Israel broke down months ago.
And last month, Al-Jazeera published secret Palestinian negotiating papers that revealed some of the wide-ranging concessions Palestinian officials were willing to make in 2008 in talks with Israel.
Among the concession were details of a willingness to trade away huge swaths of East Jerusalem and extensive limits on the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes in what is now Israel.
These details and others prompted a torrent of criticism from Palestinians and led to the resignation of long time Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat this past weekend.
On Monday, former employees of the Palestinian Negotiations Support Unit, which was the department charged with overseeing negotiations with Israel, said it had been disbanded.
Erakat was the head of the office.
It was not immediately clear which part of the Palestinian Authority government would be responsible for future negotiations.
