The wife of jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti entered election headquarters in Ramallah late Wednesday to present a list of candidates for January parliamentary elections, signaling that Barghouti has left Fatah and split the ruling party. Fadwa Barghouti carried the list into the building 90 minutes before a midnight deadline for registering parties. The move came after Fatah old-timers, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, failed to satisfy young activists like Barghouti, who wanted control of the Fatah faction after winning primaries. The split would be a bitter blow for Abbas and a boost for the Islamic Hamas, contesting a parliamentary election for the first time.function initServerVars() { _headup.clientHost = 'http://newstopics.jpost.com'; _headup.termsFromServer = 0; _headup.annotatedTerms = 0; _headup.widgetMode = 'snippet'; _headup.snippetButtonStyle = 'banner'; _headup.blackListedUrl = false; } <!-- Terms Count: 0 TTL: 4 Terms From Server: DateTime: 6/11/2011 11:14:50 PM -->