Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s longtime spokesman, is appointed deputy prime minister and information minister, PA spokesman Yousif al-Mahmoud tells the official Wafa news agency.
Abu Rudeineh, who also is a Fatah Central Committee member, will continue to serve as Abbas’s spokesman despite taking on the new job, a source in the PA president’s office says in a phone call.
Abu Rudeineh, 66, will become the PA government’s second deputy prime minister, alongside Ziad Abu Amr.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri pans Abu Rudeinah’s appointment to the two ministerial roles, asserting that “the Ramallah government is no longer a consensus government following the addition of Nabil Abu Rudeinah.”
In a 2014 agreement to advance reconciliation efforts, Hamas and Fatah consented to the formation of “a consensus government” that only included ministerial appointments of who both sides approved.
Even though reconciliation efforts between Hamas and Fatah have floundered, “the consensus government” is technically still in office.
— Adam Rasgon
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