Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced, Thursday evening, that "Tel Aviv refrained from giving them an answer regarding holding elections in the occupied city of Jerusalem," under the pretext of "the absence of an Israeli government."
Abbas said, in a speech broadcast on state television, during the Palestinian leadership meeting: "Today we received messages from Israel (regarding holding elections in Jerusalem) that they cannot give an answer because there is no Israeli government." He added, "The European Union also informed the Palestinian side of its frustration at the Israeli lack of response to the request to hold elections in Jerusalem." He pointed out that the Israeli occupation threatened to arrest the head of the Palestinian Central Election Commission, Hanna Nasir, if he went to Jerusalem to prepare for the elections .
