Overview
- After talks at the Élysée, the two leaders announced a French–Palestinian working group to consolidate state institutions and draft a constitution.
- Abbas presented Macron with an initial version of a constitutional text.
- The committee will address legal, constitutional, institutional and organizational questions of Palestinian state-building.
- Abbas said presidential and parliamentary elections would be held one year after the transition to the ceasefire’s second phase in Gaza, which foresees Hamas disarmament.
- Macron called elections in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, the top priority and warned that settlement-driven annexation is a red line that will prompt a coordinated European response.