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"The Palestinian Authority will cancel Jan. 25 parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with its plan to bar Jerusalem Palestinians from voting, Information Minister Nabil Shaath said Wednesday.
"If the Israelis insist on not allowing us to conduct the elections in Jerusalem, then there will be no elections at all," Shaath said.
Senior Israeli officials told Veronique de Keyser, who heads a delegation of European election observers, that Israel will bar Palestinians in Jerusalem from voting in Jerusalem for the January 25 Palestinian Authority legislative election because of the participation of Hamas.
In previous elections, Palestinian residents of Jerusalem voted by mailing their ballots from Jerusalem post offices or driving to polling stations in nearby West Bank suburbs.
However, a senior Israeli official told the Associatedn Press on Wednesday that this time, no voting would take place in the city, even via post offices."
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