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Abbas Issues Decree to Postpone Palestinian Election

The legislative vote would have been the first since January 2006, when Hamas defeated Abbas’s Fatah faction.

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The president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, decreed this Saturday (10.10.2026) that the presidential and legislative elections will be held on September 11, 2027, thus postponing almost a year the elections to form a new Palestinian Legislative Council, the equivalent of Parliament that has not re-session since ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has postponed the legislative assembly elections, expected to be held next month, to September 11, 2027. The presidential election will also be held on the same date.

The president of the Palestinian National Authority (ANP), Mahmud Abbas, issued this Saturday a decree setting for September 11, 2027 the simultaneous holding of presidential and parliamentary elections. The provision revokes the call for legislative elections for November 28, 2026 and calls for Palestinians from Jerusalem, the West Bank [...] The Abbas entry postpones the Palestinian parliamentary elections and calls for presidential elections …

AJN Agency.- The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, formally cancelled the legislative elections scheduled for November 28, 2026 and called for presidential and parliamentary elections for November 11, 2027, according to the official Palestinian agency WAFA. The official statement justified the change of schedule due to the restrictions [...] The entry Mahmoud Abbas cancelled the Palestinian legislative elections of November …

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AJN Agencia de Noticias broke the news on Saturday, October 10, 2026.
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