The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke to Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel on the phone expressing the determination to move forward with the conduct of legislative elections in all Palestinian lands including the occupied Al-Quds.

Abbas said that he urged the quartet states, Germany and other countries to exercise pressure on the Israeli occupation to allow the conduct of elections in the occupied Al-Quds.

Merkel expressed her full-support to the elections indicating that Germany would make calls to ensure their conduct in Al-Quds.