Top Palestinian official says elections won’t be held on time

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: A top Palestinian official on Thursday said legislative elections due to be held in late November won’t take place on time, calling for presidential elections first instead. “There will be no elections... We will proceed to elections after holding a comprehensive Palestinian national dialogue to reach consensus on the mechanisms for conducting them,” Fatah secretary-general Jibril Rajoub told reporters in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Rajoub, from the do