Cover image: EArchivo: e presidente de la Autoridad Palestina, Mahmoud Abbas, en el Palacio Chigi en Roma, Italia, 7 de noviembre de 2025. © Reuters/Remo Casilli

Abbas postpones Palestinian elections, sets presidential poll for September 2027

10 Oct 2026, 16:09 · France 24

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday postponed legislative elections due next month until September 11, 2027, and called ‌a presidential poll for the same date, blaming Israel and the security situation in the Palestinian territories for the ⁠delay. Our correspondent in Jerusalem Noga Tarnopolsky tells us more.