Political Leaders: Palestinian National Authority

Leaders of the Palestinian
National Authority (under-state entity)

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Look for biographies of the leaders (in Spanish) at CIDOB website.

Note: The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is an automous entity comprising the territory of Gaza (formerly under Egyptian sovereignty) and towns and areas of the West Bank (formerly under Jordan sovereignty), which were occupied by the Israeli Defence Forces in 1967. As provided for in the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements signed on 13 Sep 1993 in Washington, and upon the Gaza-Jericho (I) Agreement signed on 4 May 1994 in Cairo, the PNA was inaugurated on 5 Jul 1994 as a five-year transitional status including Palestinian interim self-governing and a phased-out transfer of powers and territories. Negociations on the permanent status, which could end in a Palestinian State, were under under way up to Oct 2000, when the peace process collapsed.

See also the political leadership in Israel and Jordan.

Parties: PLO: Palestinian Liberation Organization; Fatah: Palestinian National Liberation Movement (member of PLO); Hamas: Islamic Resistance Movement

President of the Executive Authority of the Palestinian Council

Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar)  5 Jul 1994 - 11 Nov 2004 (+)     Fatah/PLO [biography]
Rauhi Fattouh             11 Nov 2004 - 15 Jan 2005         Fatah/PLO (acting)
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) 15 Jan 2005 -                     Fatah/PLO [biography]

Prime minister of the Executive Authority of the Palestinian Council

Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) 19 Mar 2003 -  5 Oct 2003         Fatah/PLO [biography]
Ahmad Qureia (Abu Ala)     5 Oct 2003 - 15 Dec 2005         Fatah/PLO [biography]      
Nabil Shaath              15 Dec 2005 - 24 Dec 2005         Fatah/PLO (acting)
Ahmad Qureia (Abu Ala)    24 Dec 2005 - 29 Mar 2006         Fatah/PLO [biography]       
Ismail Haniya             29 Mar 2006 - 14 Jun 2007         Hamas     [biography]     
Salam Fayyad              17 Jun 2007 -                     Third Way [biography]

Chairmen of the Palestinian Legislative Council

Ahmad Qureia (Abu Ala)     7 Mar 1996 -  5 Oct 2003         Fatah/PLO [biography]                     
Rauhi Fattouh             10 Mar 2004 - 18 Feb 2006         Fatah/PLO
Abdel Aziz Duwaik         18 Feb 2006 -                     Hamas

Chairmen of the PLO Executive Committe

Ahmad ash-Shuqeiri         2 Jun 1964 - 24 Dec 1967 (+1980)          
Yahya Hammuda             24 Dec 1967 -  2 Feb 1969         
Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar)  2 Feb 1969 - 11 Nov 2004 (+)     Fatah     [biography]
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) 11 Nov 2004 -                     Fatah     [biography]