Hamas Names a Speaker and a Majority Leader
From Times Wire Reports
Hamas made its first parliamentary appointments since winning the Jan. 25 Palestinian legislative elections.
The militant group named Mahmoud Zahar from the Gaza Strip as majority leader in the legislature, which convenes Saturday.
Aziz Dweik from the West Bank was chosen as speaker. Dweik would become interim president, pending an election within 60 days, in the event of the death, resignation or incapacitation of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah faction.
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