According to the Jerusalem Post, Mahmoud Abbas has given up on a Hamas-Fatah unity government. The PA president is now trying to put together a government of academics, technocrats and independent figures:
Another official said former PA finance minister Salaam Fayad, head of the independent Third Way List, was being touted as a possible candidate to head the new government. Hanan Ashrawi may be given the Foreign Ministry, while Nasr Youssef, the former interior minister, may return to his job, he added.
This closes the chapter on the Prisoners’ Document, which formed the basis of months of fruitless national unity talks.
