Palestinian Authority (PA) caretaker Prime Minister Salam Feyadh will tender his cabinet's resignation to acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, an official says, PressTV reported.
The PA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Abbas will immediately ask Feyadh to form a new cabinet and the caretaker premier would begin talks on doing so, AFP reported.
Some ministers are expected to keep their jobs while others will be replaced, the official said late Sunday.
The PA on Saturday announced plans to hold legislative and presidential elections by September.
However, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum rejected the call, saying the resistance movement will neither take part in the polls nor recognize the results.
He warned PA officials that they could suffer the same fate as the rulers of Egypt and Tunisia, who were ousted by popular revolutions.
"These elections are illegal because they are not determined by any law, and Hamas will not legitimize them," he said, adding that Abbas and Feyadh lacked the legitimacy to declare elections.
"Elections should be held in accordance with Palestinian national consensus, the result of a reconciliation agreement, not as a step taken by the one party which controls every Palestinian issue," Barhoum stated.
Abbas, who has been the head of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority since 2004, has refused to leave office despite the expiry of his mandate in 2009.
Abbas's credibility has further deteriorated after talks with Israel collapsed last September when Israel refused to freeze construction of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
PressTV reported.