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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas resigned on Saturday as head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Executive Committee in a bid to force new elections for the top body, an official said.
Wassel Abu Yussef said that more than half of the 18-member committee had also stepped down.
"The resignation of the president of the executive committee Mahmoud Abbas and more than half of its members has created a legal vacuum, and therefore the Palestine National Council has been asked to meet in one month to elect a new executive committee," Yussef said.
The executive committee is the PLO's highest decision-making body and acts on behalf of Palestinians in the occupied territories and the diaspora, namely in the peace process with Israel.
In 1993, Abbas, then executive committee secretary-general, signed the Oslo autonomy accords on behalf of the Palestinians.
Yussef said that before the resignations were announced, the executive committee elected chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat as its secretary-general.
That move came after Abbas suspended another key member, Yasser Abed Rabbo, as secretary-general.
It was not immediately clear why Abed Rabbo, a veteran PLO figure, had been sidelined.
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