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The following political parties, listed in alphabetic order, have taken part in recent elections for the Palestinian National Authority in Palestine.
In 1994, The Palestinian Authority was formed, the governing body for the interim period pending final status negotiations. The President of the State of Palestine is the highest-ranking political position, the equivalent to head of state, in the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). The President is elected by popular elections. The Palestinian Legislative Council is the legislature of the Palestinian Authority. It is not to be confused with the Palestinian National Council, which remains the national legislature of the Palestinian people as a whole. The PLC passed a new law in June 2005 increasing the number of MPs from 88 to 132, stipulating that half be elected under a system of proportional representation and half by traditional constituencies.[ citation needed ]
| Party | Abbr. | Flag | Founded | Leader | Political position | Legislative Council | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamas حماس |  | 1987 | Khaled Mashal |  | Right-wing | 74 / 132 | |
| Fatah فتح |  | 1965 | Mahmoud Abbas |  | Centre [6] to centre-left | 45 / 132 | |
| PFLP | 1967 | Ahmad Sa'adat | Far-left | 3 / 132 | |||
| 2005 | Salam Fayyad |  | Left-wing [7] (Liberalism) [7] | 2 / 132 | ||||
| PNI | 2002 | Mustafa Barghouti |  | Left-wing | 2 / 132 | ||
| DFLP |  | 1968 | Nayef Hawatmeh |  | Far-left | 1 / 132 | |
| PPP | 1982 | Bassam as-Salhi | Far-left | 1 / 132 | |||
| Independent | — | 4 / 132 | ||||||
| Party | Abbr. | Flag | Founded | Political position | Founder | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Centre-left | Marwan Barghouti |  | |||
| ALF | 1969 | Right-wing [a] | Rakad Salem | |||
| As-Sa'iqa الصاعقة |  | 1966 | Far-left [b] | Farhan Abu Hayja | ||
| PLF | 1959 | Wasel Abu Yousef | ||||
| PLF (ANAW) | 1983 | Abu Nidal Ashqar | ||||
| PLF (AFGW) | 1983 | Abd ul-Fattah Ghanim | ||||
| PAF | 1993 | Left-wing | Jameel Shihadeh | |||
| FIDA | 1990 | Left-wing | Saleh Ra'fat | |||
| PCP |  | 1991 | Far-left | Mahmoud Sa'adeh | ||
| PPSF | 1967 | Left-wing | Ahmed Majdalani | |||
| PPSF (KAM) | 1991 | Left-wing | Khalid ʽAbd al-Majid | |||
| PFLP-GC | 1968 | Left-wing [c] | Ahmed Jibril | |||
| RDPP | 2019 | |||||
| RPCP | 1982 | Far-left | Arabi Awwad | |||
| Wa'ad | 2004 | Left-wing | Eyad El-Sarraj | |||
| PJP | 2005 | Usâma Salîm Muhammad | ||||
| Fatah al-Yasir | 2007 | Right-wing | Khalid Abu-Hilal | |||
| PMM | 2001 | Right-wing | Asaad Abu Sharia | |||
The PLO is comprised of centrist-nationalist groups (such as al-Fatah), rightist groups, leftist groups (including communists), militant groups, and nonmilitant groups.
A Palestinian organization, affiliated with the centrist Fatah movement, which filtered funds from the Palestinian diaspora back into social services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Even Fatah (the centrist party of the Palestine Liberation Organization led by Yasser Arafat), which had supported Hamas's Gazan campaign against the Communist Party and the Popular and Democratic Fronts, suffered the onslaughts of the movement just prior to the outbreak of the Intifada.
The failure of the Palestinian left in consolidating a counterweight to the right-wing Islamic Hamas or to the centrist Fatah, furthermore, left Palestinian voters with no viable alternative to Hamas or Fatah.
On the Muslim Palestinian side, respondents with the lowest scores sup- ported left-wing parties; intermediate scorers supported the centrist Fatah party; and those who scored highest supported Hamas and Islamic Jihad (which have "destroy Israel" ideologies).
