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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64G2R620100517
Fayyad Campaigns in West Bank
(Reuters) Hardly a day goes by without Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad touring a West Bank town or village to meet and greet the public. "Love him or hate him, the one who is running the show at the moment is Salam Fayyad," said one senior figure in the PLO's dominant Fatah faction, headed by Fayyad's boss, Mahmoud Abbas. "We could get to the point where the only option for the Palestinian people as a successor to Abbas is Salam Fayyad," said the senior Fatah figure. Opinion poll data show Fayyad with a low but increasing level of support. However, senior Fatah figures have no doubt Fayyad, a long-time outsider, is now very firmly a contender. "After three years in office and with all the projects he has opened, it would be stupid to believe that this man does not have a popular base," said Sabri Saidam, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council.