GAZA, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- The chief of the Fatah movement's bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) said on Monday that President Mahmoud Abbas would dissolve the Hamas-led government by September.

    In case the current government continues with such a manner in running Palestinian affairs, "President Abbas has a competence to practice his constitutional right to break up the government," Azzam al-Ahmad told reporters.

    "Our patience is running out. I expect most probably that President Abbas would go for such a decision by the end of this month. The situation has not changed and it became unbearable," he said.

    He quoted Abbas as saying in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday that "if the leadership of the Palestinians is not able to ensure good living conditions, it doesn't deserve the seat it is sitting on."

    More than 160,000 Palestinian government employees are going on strike for the third consecutive day on Monday in protest of being unpaid for six months since Hamas formed a government in late March.

    Al-Ahmad said, "Hamas doesn't believe in any kind of political partnership or want to have anything in common with other political powers and factions."

    "If we do not find a solution in coordination with others, mainly the United States, it means that we are imprisoning ourselves," he said. Enditem

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