(Ha'aretz) Arnon Regular - The outgoing Palestinian parliament passed a law at its final session Monday substantially expanding the powers of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in what Hamas said was a last-minute bid to rein it in before it takes over parliament and forms the new government. The outgoing parliament gave Abbas the authority to appoint judges to the Constitutional Law Court that will decide in disputes between the PA chairman and parliament. Hamas's Abdel-Aziz Dweik charged that the law gives full powers to Abbas "to dissolve parliament any time he wishes."
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