Marwan Barghouti: End Security Coordination With The Occupation, Strive For Comprehensive Intifada | MEMRI

In recent months, Fatah leader Marwan Al-Barghouti, who is serving five life-sentences in Israel for orchestrating terrorist attacks during the second intifada, was mentioned again as a potential candidate to succeed Mahmoud ‚Abbas as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA). This occurs against the backdrop of recent criticism of ‚Abbas’s performance as PA president and as Fatah and PLO chairman, as well as ‚Abbas’s own statements that he will not run in the next presidential elections. Barghouti’s wife Fadwa said on February 24, 2016 that her husband planned to submit his candidacy for president.[1]