FILE PHOTO: Palestinian women register their names for parliamentary and presidential elections, in a school in Gaza City February 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
RAMALLAH, West Bank/GAZA (Reuters) - The first Palestinian elections in 15 years appeared to be headed for a delay on Tuesday amid a dispute over voting in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and splits in President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party.
Many Palestinians were sceptical from the start on whether parliamentary and presidential votes planned for May and July would even take place after they were announced by Abbas in January. Now 85, Abbas has been in power since 2005.
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