(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The newly elected municipal councils in Palestine represent a very small proportion of the population of Palestine and the Ordinance under which they were elected is a defective one, Musa Kazim Pasha, the President of the Palestine Arab Executive, declared here today. The Government must not regard them, therefore, as the nation’s representatives on whom it can depend in any matters affecting the establishment of a Legislative Council, he said.
The rumors concerning the Government’s intention to set up a Legislative Council in Palestine and to consult the elected municipal councils on the subject may be correct, but it is not binding upon them, he stated. The Government approached them before with proposals on this question and they relected them because they were unacceptable. If the Government has a better proposal to make now they may examine it and decide whether to accept or reject it.
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