The Diplomat
Yesterday the Government showed its support for the new Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohamed Mustafa, and has indicated that it supports his leadership in Gaza and the West Bank, in addition to reiterating that Spain works for “peace in the region” and the establishment of a State Palestinian “to coexist” alongside Israel.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, reacted on social networks to the appointment of Mustafa, former Minister of Economy, to form a new technocratic government, which would be the nineteenth of the Palestinian Authority, in the midst of a the worst recent crises and with an eye on the possibility of being able to govern in the Gaza Strip once the war ends, Europa Press reports.
“We congratulate the new Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohamed Mustafa. Spain supports the leadership of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and the West Bank, and works for peace in the region and the establishment of the Palestinian State that coexists with Israel,” Albares stressed in a publication in X.
The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday appointed economist Mohamed Mustafa as the new prime minister, almost a month after the previous one, Mohamad Shtayé, presented his resignation in the midst of the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip.
With extensive international experience in global institutions, he has worked for fifteen years for the World Bank. Mustafa, 69, is the current president of the Palestine Investment Fund and an independent member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
