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05-01-2006, 10:47 AM
Dubai - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said in a television interview broadcast on Monday that he does not intend to seek a second term in office.
"No, no, (I just want to) complete my current mandate, if I succeed in that," Abbas told Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television when asked if he would run again when his four-year term expires in 2009.
Abbas, who became president of the Palestinian Authority in January 2005 after the death of veteran leader Yasser Arafat, has been locked in a power struggle with the Islamist movement Hamas which now leads the Palestinian government.
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"No, no, (I just want to) complete my current mandate, if I succeed in that," Abbas told Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television when asked if he would run again when his four-year term expires in 2009.
Abbas, who became president of the Palestinian Authority in January 2005 after the death of veteran leader Yasser Arafat, has been locked in a power struggle with the Islamist movement Hamas which now leads the Palestinian government.
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