RAMALLAH, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced on Sunday that it won't participate in any unity government that is scheduled to be formed soon.
The group said in a press statement that it has conveyed its position to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement in a joint meeting held in Ramallah earlier Sunday.
"The crisis that the Palestinian political arena is passing through on various levels amid deepened internal split urges all of us to stop carrying out any measures that will complicate the situation, including the formation of a government," said the PFLP statement.
It warned that the formation of a new government "would bring more obstacles that would block any opportunity for achieving reconciliation and ending the internal split."
The PFLP called for an alternative to the formation of a new government by holding an emergency meeting for activating Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and reaching an agreement on a joint political platform, before forming a unity government that prepares for the general election.
On Tuesday last week, the Palestinian presidency announced that Abbas accepted the resignation of the consensus government and agreed to keep it as an acting government until the formation of a new one.
The announcement, which was made in a statement published by the Palestinian news agency WAFA, also said that Abbas started contacts and consultations to form a unity government that includes factions of the PLO and independent figures.
The resigned consensus government was formed in 2014 in accordance with an agreement reached between Fatah and Islamic Hamas movement in Gaza.
