President of the State of Palestine
The president of the State of Palestine is the head of state of Palestine. Since 2013, the title president of the State of Palestine became the only title of the Palestinian president.
| President of the State of Palestine
رئيس دولة فلسطين | |
|---|---|
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.svg) Presidential standard | |
| Term length | 4 years Renewable |
| Formation | 2 April 1989 |
| First holder | Yasser Arafat |
| Salary | 120,000 USD annually[1] |
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List of Presidents (1989–present)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term | Political Party | Election | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||||
| 1 | Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) | 2 April 1989 | 11 November 2004 † | 15 years, 223 days | Fatah | – 1996 | [2] | |
| – | Rawhi Fattouh (born 1948) Acting | 11 November 2004 | 15 January 2005 | 65 days | Fatah | – | ||
| – | Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935) Acting | 8 May 2005 | 23 November 2008 | 3 years, 199 days | Fatah | – | [3] | |
| 2 | Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935) [a] | 23 November 2008 | Incumbent | 15 years, 280 days | Fatah | 2005 | [5] | |
Notes
References
- ↑ "قانون مخصصات وتعويضات رئيس السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية رقم (18) لسنة 2005م". muqtafi.birzeit.edu.
- ↑ Aburish, Said K. (1998). From Defender to Dictator. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 201–228. ISBN 1-58234-049-8.
- ↑ PLO asks Mahmud Abbas to be acting president of "state of Palestine" Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, Al Jazeera, 8 May 2005
- ↑ Palestinian Authority rebrands itself 'State of Palestine' after U.N. vote
- ↑ "PLO body elects Abbas 'president of Palestine'". Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-08., AFP (23 November 2008): "I announce that the PLO Central Council has elected Mahmud Abbas president of the State of Palestine. He takes on this role from this day, November 23, 2008," the body's chairman Salem al-Zaanun told reporters.
