Rawhi Fattuh ( ar, روحي فتوح, , also transliterated as Rauhi Fattouh; born 23 August 1949) is the former

Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council The Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council is the chairman of the Palestinian Legislative Council of the Palestinian Authority. As Chairman, the Speaker acts as interim President of the Palestinian National Authority if the latter is unabl ...

and was the interim President of the Palestinian Authority, following the death of

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

on 11 November 2004 until 15 January 2005. Under Palestinian law, he was to hold the post for sixty days until an election was held. The

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were held and won by Mahmoud Abbas, who was sworn in on 15 January 2005.Bio entry appears in the PASSIA (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs) website, listed as FATTOUH, RAWHI Ahmed Mohammed (1949-) under "Personalities" at Link checked 11 April 2011. PASSIA's entry is referenced by other online biographical sources. He was elected to the

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in December 2016.

Biography

Fattuh was elected in 1996 as a representative to the Palestinian Legislative Council of the town of

Rafah Rafah ( ar, رفح, Rafaḥ) is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. It is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate, located south of Gaza City. Rafah's population of 152,950 (2014) is overwhelmingly made up of former Palestini ...

, (in the

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), where he was born and has lived for most of his life. He served as secretary to the PLC until October 2003, when he became the Minister of Agriculture in the government of

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Ahmed Qureia. In July 2004, Fatah nominated Fattuh as its candidate for

, with 34 Fatah delegates voting in favour and 10 against. In November 2004, Fattuh supported Ahmed Qurei, his predecessor as Speaker and former Prime Minister, to succeed Arafat as President. Fattuh did not run in the 2006 legislative election and is no longer a member of the PLC.

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