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Bassam as-Salhi

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “general secretary of the palestinian people's party and elected member of the palestinian legislative council”. Today it says “palestinian politician and the secretary-general of the palestinian people's party”.
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Bassam as-Salhi (born 1960) is a Palestinian politician and the Secretary-General of the Palestinian People's Party (PPP), a left-wing political party, since 2008. Born in the Al-Am'ari Refugee Camp near Ramallah to a family originally from Lydda , as-Salhi was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in the 2006 general election through the party-list of The Alternative .

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “general secretary of the palestinian people's party and elected member of the palestinian legislative council”. Today it says “palestinian politician and the secretary-general of the palestinian people's party”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

general secretary of the palestinian people's party and elected member of the palestinian legislative council

Now

palestinian politician and the secretary-general of the palestinian people's party

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