Palestinian drafting committee completes first state constitution draft

<p data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Palestinians announced on Monday the finalising of the State of Palestine's first Constitution draft, according to an official.</p><p data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-top: 11px;">Ahmed Al-Khaldi, who headed the drafting committee, told Xinhua that an official committee was commissioned to prepare a constitution for the state, not for a national authority nor an interim authority.</p><p data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-top: 11px;">He explained that intensive work has been carried out since May to prepare the 273 constitution articles which will merge parliamentary and presidential governing systems.</p>
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