Powers and Responsibilities
- Commander-in-Chief of the Palestinian Forces
- Sends and receives all foreign ambassadors
- May veto bills within 30 days of passage with 2/3 majority needed to over turn veto
- May grant pardons or commute sentences but not general amnesty
- If Legislative Council is not in session, in exceptional cases, can issues decrees with force of law, but decrees must be presented to Legislative Council as soon as convened for approval or cease to have force of law
- Appoints the Prime Minister and may remove him
- Orders the Prime Minister to call together the Council of Ministers
- No right to dissolve the Legislative council and call for early elections.
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