[originaltext] The outgoing parliament in the Palestinian territories has vot

The outgoing parliament in the Palestinian territories has voted to give new powers to the President Mohammad Abbas. The move has been met with anger from the militant group Hamas which won the Palestinian elections last month. President Mohammad Abhas’s Fatah Party suffered a stunning electoral defeat at the hands of Humus. But in what was almost their final act before the new Humus dominated legislature is sworn in, Fatah members have boosted the president’s position. They’ve given him the authority to bypass parliament and appoint judges to the constitutional court. Humus has been outraged. It regards Fatah as having used the old unrepresentative legislature’s dying moments to strengthen the president’s hand for cynical party political aims.