Who was the first President of the State of Palestine?
Who was the first President of the State of Palestine?
(A) Muhammad Abbas
(B) Yasser Arafat
(C) Mahmud Abbas
(D) Aziz Dweik
Yasser Arafat was the first President of the State of Palestine, elected on April 2, 1989, following the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988. Later, he was appointed as the President of the Palestinian National Authority in 1994 and continued to hold both positions until his death in 2004.