President
|
Tenure
|
Party
|
Election
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1
|
|
Yasser Arafat
(1929-2009)
|
15 November 1980 –
1 October 1993
|
|
Fatah
|
N/A
|
|
Pan-Arab Liberation Organization
|
1985
|
1989
|
2
|
|
Farouk Kaddoumi
(b. 1931)
|
1 October 1993 –
1 October 1997
|
|
Pan-Arab Liberation Organization
|
1993
|
3
|
|
Edward Said
(1935 - 2003)
|
1 October 1997 –
1 October 2001
|
|
Pan-Arab Liberation Organization
|
1997
|
4
|
|
Marwan Barghouti
(b. 1959)
|
1 October 2001 –
1 October 2005
|
|
Pan-Arab Liberation Organization
|
2001
|
5
|
|
Nayef Hawatmeh
(1938 - 2006)
(assassinated)
|
1 October 2005 –
25 February 2006
|
|
Arab Socialist Union
|
2005
|
6
|
|
Leila Khaled
(b. 1944)
|
25 February 2006 –
1 October 2009
|
|
Arab Socialist Union
|
7
|
|
Azmi Bishara
(b. 1956)
|
1 October 2009 –
1 October 2013
|
|
Pan-Arab Liberation Organization
|
2009
|
8
|
|
Marwan Barghouti
(b. 1959)
|
1 October 2013 –
present
|
|
Pan-Arab Liberation Organization
|
2013
|
2017
|