# Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for 22 May Date: 2021 ## The fact On 29 April 2021 [Mahmoud Abbas](/people/mahmoud-abbas) postponed Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for 22 May 2021, citing the inability to vote in East Jerusalem. Thirty-six lists had already registered. Reuters recorded the indefinite delay. Do not invent poll numbers as Contribution.size. ## Context His 2005 four-year term had expired in 2009. He did not sit as Israel’s Jerusalem municipality. 2007 split is parent. 24 June 2021 Banat is a child. Keep Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for 22 May on 2021-04-29 separate from neighbouring 14 June 2007 Gaza split, 29 April 2021 postponement, and 24 June 2021 Banat death. The President of the [Palestinian Authority](/organizations/palestinian-authority) and PLO Executive Committee chair can issue decrees in the West Bank, accredit diplomats, and apply to UN bodies. He does not write Israeli Knesset statutes, Hamas military orders in Gaza after 2007, or UN Security Council resolutions. ## Evidence and sources Palestinian Central Elections Commission carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is electoral integrity: a completed cancellation of the first national elections in fifteen years. ## What is established and what is not Established: He postponed the 22 May 2021 legislative elections on 29 April 2021; 36 lists had registered. Not established: A unique poll integer as Contribution.size, or that East Jerusalem voting was a completed Israeli veto of the PA decree. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. CEC had opened lists. Israel controls East Jerusalem voting access. He did not sit as Israel.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for 22 May, not a later speech about Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for 22 May. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for 22 May on 2021-04-29 is not a licence to treat every later Palestinian Central Elections Commission communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for 22 May into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He issued the postponement. CEC had opened lists. Israel controls East Jerusalem voting access. He did not sit as Israel. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Mahmoud Abbas: https://factrail.ai/people/mahmoud-abbas ## Drivers - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-president-abbas-delays-elections-indefinitely-2021-04-30/ - https://www.elections.ps/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ps-election-postpone-2021