Edited sentence: As long as the Palestinian Territories are occupied, the elections can have little more than symbolic importance.Elections in the OPT are held to exercise the Palestinian right to selfdetermination in connection with their right to establish their own state, but are held under military occupation.However, changes of the political reality, including elections and the formation of new political entities under occupation are, like the Oslo Accords themselves, contrary the Geneva Conventions and thus illegal.Israel does not allow free exercise of political activities; checkpoints and separation walls are already fit to hinder all social activities.Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council and other politicians are detained by Israel or even killed, particularly those of Hamas.Moreover, PNA and parliament do not represent the Palestinians in the diaspora (to which the PLO is entitled).The parliament cannot function, merely because free travel is not possible, especially between Gaza and West Bank, apart from hostilities between Fatah and Hamas.They are held in the framework of the Oslo Accords, meaning that the power of the PNA was (and is) limited to matters like culture, education, ID-cards and the distribution of the land and water