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On Friday 1st of August, this website was hacked. Due to this the site didn't work properly for a couple of weeks. The problems are now solved. More...
On Friday 1st of August, this website was hacked. Due to this the site didn't work properly for a couple of weeks. The problems are now solved. More...
On 25 August Israeli authorities will free 198 detained Palestinians. According to Reuters, their release will coincide with a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. A list of ... More...
A committee consisting of members from Palestinian leftist parties along with Islamic Jihad and Hamas have met in Gaza to doscuss the issue of national dialogue. The five party group has ... More...
Palestinian de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza plans to publish a book on the experience of his cabinet. The book is being published by the de facto cabinet's ... More...
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza (PCHR) condemns the continued attacks on private and civil society organizations and arrests by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank. The policy ... More...
In a meeting with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Palestinian caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stated that he attempts to speed the formation of a transitional government. Such a government is ... More...
In order to pay public service salaries this month, Palestinan Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was forced to seek help from a mobile phone company eager to speed its entry into ... More...
In response to a petition by the hamas-affilliated speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Ahmad Bahar, the Interiory Ministry of the de facto cabinet in Gaza released Fatah leader ... More...
According to Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, Israel has agreed to release 150 Palestinian detainees within the end of August. Among those who will be freed are several members of ... More...
Issa Al-Jabari, former Palestinian minister of local government, has been released from prison by Israeli authorities. Al-Jabari was detained during the summer of 2006 along with among others 42 members ... More...
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The Palestinian Basic Law is to function as a temporary constitution for the Palestinian Authority until the establishment of an independent state and a permanent constitution for Palestine can be achieved.
The Basic Law was passed by the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1997 and ratified by President Yasser Arafat in 2002. It has subsequently been amended twice; in 2003 the political system was changed to introduce a prime minister. In 2005 it was amended to conform to the new Election Law. The 2003 reform was comprehensive and affected the whole nature of the Palestinian political system, whereas the 2005 amendment was only minor and affected only a few paragraphs.
A parallel effort has been made to draft a permanent Palestinian constitution for an independent state, but this was shelved in favor of amending the existing Basic Law.
This website presents a collection of various drafts and amendments related to the Basic Law and other constitutional texts that have been compiled from various other sources.
You can also expect to find links to news items and reports that are of relevance to Palestinian constitutional law, the electoral framework, political reform and the PA branches of government.
The website was created by the Norwegian journalists Erik Bolstad and Tonje M. Viken in February 2008. The site is a private initiative and has no affiliation to any organizations or authorities.
All external links are purely for information purposes and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors of this site.