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The cabinet of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has resigned and Salam Fayyad, the prime minister, will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas, officials have said.
The resignations on Monday came amid calls for reform in the Arab world, triggered by the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, after a popular revolt.
The shakeup was long demanded by Fayyad and some in Abbas's Fatah faction.
"The cabinet resigned today and the formation of a new cabinet will take place as soon as possible," Ali Jarbawi, minister of planning, told Reuters.
A senior Palestinian official said Abbas plans to ask Fayyad, who has spearheaded efforts to build up Palestinian government institutions ahead of statehood, to form a new cabinet.
The move follows the resignation of Saeb Erekat, the Palestine Liberation Organization's chief negotiator, on Saturday, after it emerged that the source of the Palestine Papers, a set of leaked documents that was released by Al Jazeera, was in his own office.
The leaks showed the concessions that Palestinian negotiators were willing to grant to Israel, contrary to their public posture.
Bankrolled by international donors and engaged in security co-ordination with Israel, the Palestinian Authority has a limited mandate in the occupied West Bank. It lost control of the Gaza Strip to Hamas, in 2007.
Abbas' credibility has been further sapped by long-stalled negotiations with Israel on an accord founding a Palestinian state. Hamas spurns permanent co-existence with the Jewish state.
Of the 24 posts in Fayyad's outgoing cabinet, only 16 were staffed. Two ministers resigned and six are marooned in Gaza. Of those present in the cabinet, some face allegations of incompetence.
The PA announced on Saturday it would seek new legislative and presidential elections by September.
Hamas has rejected the call and said it would not take part in the poll, nor recognize the results.
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Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, seen February 3
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