The PA's call to elections is illegal, and made in contravention of Elections Law 2005 because the call came from an illegitimate government, Hamas' Ministry of Justice said in a statement Thursday.
Palestinians, the statement said, must refuse the call and stand in the face of an illegitimate Ramallah government, urging people to call for a boycott of the vote.
Without proposing an alternative, the statement called on international rights organizations to interfere and prevent the elections from being held.
The statement accused the Fayyad government of seizing the issue of elections and using it to intensify division. Any municipal councils derived from the new elections, the statement said, would be illegitimate.