Rawhi Fattouh

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Rawhi Fattuh
روحي فتوح
Interim President of the Palestinian National Authority
In office
11 November 2004 – 15 January 2005
Preceded byYasser Arafat
Succeeded byMahmoud Abbas
3rd Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council
In office
10 March 2004 – 16 February 2006
Preceded byRafiq Al-Natsheh
Succeeded byAziz Dweik
Personal details
Born (1949-08-23) 23 August 1949 (age 74)
Palestinian
Political partyFatah

Rawhi Fattuh (

Palestinian Authority, following the death of Yasser Arafat on 11 November 2004 until 15 January 2005. Under Palestinian law, he was to hold the post for sixty days until an election was held.[1] The elections were held and won by Mahmoud Abbas, who was sworn in on 15 January 2005.[2] He was elected to the Central Committee of Fatah in December 2016.[3]

Biography

Fattuh was elected in 1996 as a representative to the

Ahmed Qureia
.

In July 2004, Fatah nominated Fattuh as its candidate for Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council,[4] with 34 Fatah delegates voting in favour and 10 against.

In November 2004, Fattuh supported Ahmed Qurei, his predecessor as speaker and former prime minister, to succeed Arafat as president.

Fattuh was sworn in as interim President of the Palestinian National Authority on 11 November 2004 after the death of Arafat. After taking the oath, Fattuh praised Arafat as a martyr of the Palestinian people and promised to faithfully follow Arafat's policies.[5]

Fattuh did not run in the 2006 legislative election and is no longer a member of the PLC.[2]

In 2022, Fattouh chaired the 18-member Fatah-dominated

PLO Executive Committee. Fattouh, a member of the PNC's founding generation, was considered by analysts to be dull and lacking any political influence to actually rule.[6]

Israel revoked the entry permits to Israel for Fattouh and two other senior Palestinian officials in January 2023 after they visited Karim Younis, who was freed from prison after being convicted of murdering an Israeli soldier in 1980.[7]

Views

At an event in Algeria in 2023, Fattuh claimed that Arabs had inhabited Jerusalem for over 1.5 million years, while Jews had only been in the Middle East for 6,000 years. The oldest human fossils found date to around 300,000 years ago, 1.2 million years later than Fattouh's claim.[8]

References

  1. ^ PNA interim chairman calls for elections preparations Archived 23 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Xinhua News Agency, 13 November 2004
  2. ^
    PASSIA (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs) website, listed as FATTOUH, RAWHI Ahmed Mohammed (1949-) under "Personalities" at "PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs - JerusalemPASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs". Archived from the original
    on 3 December 1998. Retrieved 12 April 2011. Link checked 11 April 2011. PASSIA's entry is referenced by other online biographical sources.
  3. ^ WAFA, ed. (5 December 2016). "Fatah Congress elects Central Committee and Revolutionary Council members". Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  4. ISBN 9781857434149
    – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Fattouh Sworn in as Interim Palestinian President". Voice of America. 11 November 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  6. ^ Khoury, Jack (19 December 2022). "It's Not the End of Abbas' Reign That Worries Palestinians. It's What Comes Next". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  7. Times of Israel
    . Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  8. Jewish Chronicle
    . Retrieved 31 January 2024.
Political offices
Preceded by
President of the Palestinian Authority

2004 – 2005
(interim) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council
10 March 2004 – 16 February 2006 		Succeeded by
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