The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) currently has 132 members following the legislative election on 25 January 2006. This is a list of PLC members, arranged by constituency. 15 members are imprisoned by Israeli authorities and three are deceased, according to the count on 31 December 2010.
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“The current of our thoughts made as sudden bends as the river, which was continually opening new prospects to the east or south, but we are aware that rivers flow most rapidly and shallowest at these points.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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