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RAMALLAH, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Fatah party started the elections on Saturday to vote for a new Central Committee and Revolutionary Council.
Spokesman of the seventh conference, Mahmoud Abu Al-Haija, told Xinhua that the lists were finalized. He added that the elections will run for seven hours and the results would be announced on Sunday.
Friday night, the spokesman announced that 64 candidates are competing for 18 seats of the central committee and 423 others will compete for 80-85 seats of the revolutionary council.
The congress started Tuesday with the participation of 1320 members. Abu Al-Haija said that around 60 members are also voting in the same time in Gaza and the West Bank.
The last Fatah conference took place in Bethlehem city in 2009, which was the first conference to be held in the Palestinian territories in 20 years.
