The Palestinian Authority said Tuesday that local elections delayed last October after a spat between political factions will now take place in the West Bank and Gaza on May 13.

Hamas movement which controls the Gaza Strip has been at odds with president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party over the organization of their first competitive polls in a decade.

“Today, at a regular meeting, the council of ministers decided to hold elections on May 13, to be held in the West Bank and Gaza,” local government minister Hussein al-Araj told AFP.

Source: AFP