<Ul> <Li> Politics of Palestine </Li> <Li> Political parties </Li> <Li> Elections </Li> </Ul> <Li> Politics of Palestine </Li> <P> The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, al - Jabhah al - Sha ` biyyah li - Taḥrīr Filasṭīn) is a secular Palestinian Marxist--Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash . It has consistently been the second - largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization (the PLO, founded in 1964), the largest being Fatah (founded in 1959). As of 2015 the PFLP boycotts participation in the PLO Executive Committee and the Palestinian National Council . </P> <P> Ahmad Sa'adat has served as Secretary - General of the PFLP since 2001 . He was sentenced in December 2006 to 30 years in an Israeli prison . The PFLP currently considers both the Fatah - led government in the West Bank and the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip illegal because elections to the Palestinian National Authority have not been held since 2006 . The United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union have designated the PFLP as a terrorist organization . </P>

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