Palestinian Public Opinion Polls No. 17‎

Abstract

The Elections Court approved the reopening of the chance of candidacy ‎for six hours. Through the ‎granted period, Fateh was able to unite the ‎two lists into one. The total number of lists running for ‎the legislative ‎elections is now eleven and the number of candidates running through ‎their local ‎circles is 414 distributed among a different spectrum of ‎parties, political affiliations and social ‎backgrounds. Added to the above ‎number is another number of independent candidates. The ‎campaigns for ‎all candidates were launched at the end of the last week.‎ There is still a concern among Palestinian public that Israel may disallow ‎Palestinian residents of ‎East Jerusalem to participate in the legislative ‎elections which may mean a total cancellation of ‎elections.‎ Meanwhile, Israel continues its assassinations of “wanted” Palestinians ‎and incursions in some ‎Palestinian cities. Further, Israel is creating an ‎isolation belt North of Gaza Strip