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Reuters
RAMALLAH
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction on Wednesday chose a deputy party leader but it was unclear whether Mahmoud Al-Aloul would also be favourite to succeed him as president. Aloul, for years a close Abbas confidant, has clout among the party's grassroots and had a military background.
He is the first deputy leader appointed since Fatah's founding in the 1960s by former Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat.
