Please enter your email address to receive a brief email every time there’s news published on the site.
Fatah has elected a new Central Committee. Here are the names. Read: Reuters Alertnet, "FACTBOX-Final results of Fatah Central Committee vote", 12 August 2009, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LC73906.htm Read: Reuters Alertnet, "PENPIX-Influential figures in new leading ... More...
About 300 delegates to the Fatah convention has been refused to leave Gaza by Hamas rulers. Instead, the delegates are voting by phone for 18 seats on the executive body, ... More...
Mahmoud Abbas is endorsed as Fatah's continued party leader. Abbas received the approval in a show of hands from the vast majority of 2 300 delegates participating in Fatah's first congress ... More...
President Mahmoud Abbas will chair the Fatah Congress beginning on Tuesday in Bethlehem. Reuters Alertnet have compiled some questions and answers about Fatah. Read: Reuters Alertnet, "Q&A: Abbas's Fatah holds long-awaited congress", 3 ... More...
On 4 August the Fatah party congress is set to begin in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Hamas has conditioned the departure of some 400 Fatah members from Gaza on Abbas's ... More...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced $200 million in U.S. aid to the Palestinians. The money, which is part of a $900 million pledge she made in March at ... More...
"The split between the two halves of the Palestinian Authority has steadily eroded the legitimacy of the Ramallah government. Any policy based on the hope that Abbas and Fayyad will ... More...
After 37 rounds of talks Fatah leaders have agreed to hold the Revolutionary Council meeting to be held on 4 August in Bethlehem. It will be the first Fatah leadership meeting ... More...
After his release from Israeli prison, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Aziz Dweik, speaks of unity in an exclusive interview with Maan News. Read: Maan News, "Hamas' Dweik has "message ... More...
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights has reviewed a number of regulations and decrees issued by the de facto cabinet in Gaza and President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. Read: ... More...
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.
