Fatah party polls well in local elections
The Palestinians’ ruling Fatah Party appeared to be bouncing back from corruption and inefficiency charges to show strength in local elections that could provide momentum toward a summer parliamentary election showdown with Hamas.
Partial and unofficial returns from Thursday’s elections in 84 towns and villages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip showed Fatah leading the race in Rafah on the Gaza-Egypt border, the town most battered in four years of Palestinian-Israeli violence.
