Palestinians are holding municipal elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank amid growing anger against President Mahmoud Abbas after he canceled planned legislative and presidential elections earlier this year.
More than 400,000 Palestinians have the right to vote in 154 village councils in the West Bank, where Abbas's Palestinian Authority has limited self-government. Municipal elections are usually held every four or five years.
Municipal elections are not being held in Gaza, whose Hamas Islamist rulers are boycotting the vote amid a rift with Abbas's Fatah party. The 86-year-old president has postponed municipal elections in major West Bank cities such as Ramallah, which could be seen as a referendum on Abbas's rule.
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