The Palestinian Authority (PA) said on Tuesday its heralded national election must also be held in East Jerusalem, raising a demand on which a still-unscheduled vote could hinge.
Palestinians' last parliamentary ballot in 2006 resulted in a surprise win by Hamas, widening an internal political rift that led to the Islamist group's seizure of the Gaza Strip in 2007 and contributed to the long delay in setting further elections.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the rival Fatah party and is based in the West Bank, said in September he would issue a decree for national elections, but gave no date.