<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" id="mwAY8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a> wins the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Palestinian_presidential_election" id="mwAZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2005 Palestinian presidential election">election</a> to succeed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat" id="mwAZE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Yasser Arafat">Yasser Arafat</a> as President of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" id="mwAZI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian National Authority</a>, replacing interim president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawhi_Fattouh" id="mwAZM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rawhi Fattouh">Rawhi Fattouh</a>.<sup about="#mwt232" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-43"}}' id="cite_ref-43" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_9#cite_note-43" id="mwAZQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 43;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAZU">[43]</span></a></sup>
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