The growing number of groups seeking seats in the PLC came as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday extended the nomination period from 12 to 18 days.
The spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement accused Hamas, Hazem Qasim, of the leadership of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah by continuing to manipulate the electoral track and trying to tailor it to the size of the Fatah movement, considering that it dealt with the electoral entitlement with a class logic rather than as a national entitlement.