(Jordan Times) Daoud Kuttab - The biggest question in the upcoming elections for the Palestinian legislature is not how many seats Hamas will win, but who will represent the leading Palestinian party, Fatah, which is witnessing a serious crisis. It is not just a struggle between older and younger leaders, not just between Tunis-based leaders and those who have never left the territories. The real crisis stems from the lack of any attractive leadership. In Ramallah, the head of the pro-Fatah lawyers union, Ahmad Sayyad, said, "The only issue we have decided on is that we don't want to reelect any of the existing members of the Palestine Legislative Council."
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