Poll: 75 percent of Palestinians favor holding new elections

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Poll: 75 percent of Palestinians favor holding new elections


By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, and The Associated Press


A survey published Thursday by an independent Palestinian research center found that 75 percent of Palestinians would back new elections.

The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research conducted the poll during and after the Hamas military takeover of Gaza last week. It was conducted among 1,270 respondents in the West Bank and Gaza and had an error margin of 3 percent.

If new presidential elections were to be held, 49 percent would vote for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah movement, and 42 percent would vote for his political rival, deposed prime minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, the survey said.