By DPA
Damascus : The No.2 leader of the radical Palestinian Hamas movement in exile said Wednesday here his group does not oppose formation of a technocrat government.
"All eventualities are open now. We can reach a consensus on a government, a technocrat government, that includes neither Fatah nor Hamas," Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau, said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the unity government of his Fatah movement and rival Hamas after Hamas overran the Gaza Strip Thursday. Abbas set up an emergency government that has wide support of the West.
Abu Marzouk said according to the constitution Abbas had no authority to form an emergency government.
"Abbas has the right to dissolve the government, which would be the acting government for no more than one month, after which a new government should be formed and presented to the legislative council.
"The government could not work without a Palestinian consensus, especially between Fatah and Hamas," Abu Marzouk said.
Following Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip last week, the Palestinians now have two rival governments: Abbas' Western-backed emergency government in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza.
The international community has embraced Abbas, while the Islamic militant Hamas government has been shunned.
Abu Marzouk complained that current measures by Abbas to move all ministries to the West Bank, was "a plot … to separate Gaza from the West Bank".
He said Hamas had agreed on the mediation of the Arab League "and welcomes any Arab initiative".
On the news that international aid to Gaza had been cut, Abu Marzouk said, "That's not new, and Hamas will stand alongside its people at delicate times".
He dismissed as "baseless" Israeli reports that Hamas' leaders might be moved from Damascus to Gaza in order to pave the way for resumption of peace talks between Syria and Israel.