The Palestinian governments of 2013 were two

Palestinian government The government of Palestine is the government of the Palestinian Authority or State of Palestine. The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (EC) is the highest executive body of the Palestine Liberation Organization and ac ...

s established respectively on 6 June and 19 September 2013. They ruled ''de facto'' over the

West Bank The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

only. The Palestinian government of June 2013 was led by

Rami Hamdallah Rami Hamdallah (; born 10 August 1958) is a Palestinian politician and academic. He served as Prime Minister of the State of Palestine from 2013 to 2019 and was previously the president of An-Najah National University in Nablus from 1998 to 2 ...

, appointed by

Palestinian President The president of the State of Palestine () is the head of state of Palestine. Yasser Arafat became the first titular president of the State of Palestine in 1989, one year after the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. The title was origina ...

Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas (; born 15 November 1935), also known by the Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Mazen (, ), is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the President of the Palestinian National Authority, P ...

by presidential decree on 6 June 2013 in

Ramallah Ramallah ( , ; ) is a Palestinians, Palestinian city in the central West Bank, that serves as the administrative capital of the State of Palestine. It is situated on the Judaean Mountains, north of Jerusalem, at an average elevation of abov ...

, the West Bank. The cabinet comprised 24 members, and was not presented for approval by the

Palestinian Legislative Council The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of the Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian Authority, elected by the Palestinians, Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories of the Wes ...

. Two weeks later, Hamdallah resigned in protest at the appointment of two deputy prime ministers for political and economic affairs. Hamdallah later backtracked from his resignation and on 19 September 2013, the cabinet was sworn in for the second time, without any changes. The Hamdallah government succeeded the successive governments of

Salam Fayyad Salam Fayyad (; born 12 April 1952) is a Palestinian politician and economist who served as the first prime minister of Palestine from January 2013 until his resigned in July of that same year. He was previously the fourth prime minister of the ...

, who had resigned as a consequence of the 2011–2012 anti-corruption protests.

Timeline

On 14 February 2013, amid pan-Arab calls for reform, Prime Minister Fayyad submitted to President Abbas his resignation along with that of his cabinet. After consultations with other factions, institutions, and civil society groups, Abbas asked Fayyad to form a new government. The reshuffle had long been demanded by Fayyad as well as members of Abbas's

Fatah Fatah ( ; ), formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (), is a Palestinian nationalist and Arab socialist political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and ...

faction. On 6 June 2013, President Mahmud Abbas appointed

Prime Minister, but was not presented for approval by the

. Two weeks later, Hamdallah resigned in protest at the appointment of two deputy prime ministers for political and economic affairs.''Abbas asks caretaker Palestinian PM to stay on''
Agence France-Presse, 13 August 2013 According to , deputy speaker of the PLC, the real reason Hamdallah resigned was because he discovered the Prime Minister has no power and that there was no point in having a prime minister “at a time when President Abbas has a monopoly over all the executive branch’s authorities.” “The presence of two deputy prime ministers, who are friends of President Abbas, means that the prime minister is a powerless figure,”''PA's Abbas accepts PM Hamdallah's resignation''
Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, 23 June 2013 Hamdallah's June appointment was originally envisioned as an interim measure until a unity government with Hamas could be formed. On 23 June 2013, Abbas accepted Hamdallah's resignation, but asked him to stay on on a caretaker basis until a new premier could be appointed. On 19 September 2013, Hamdallah withdrew his resignation and the government was sworn in for the second time, without any changes.''Abbas swears in 16th Palestinian Authority government in Ramallah''
Jerusalem Post, 19 September 2013 In June 2014, the government was replaced by a Fatah-Hamas unity government, with Hamdallah as prime minister.

Members of the Government

June 2013 to June 2014 ''Government of the State of Palestine, 6 June 2013''
UN Observer SoP. Archived on 18 October 2013
Archived on 17 September 2015''15th government of Palestinian Authority sworn in''
Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, 6 June 2013

References

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Timeline

Members of the Government

See also

References