Item three concerns the species' habit of grading itself by appointment. In RAMALLAH, President Mahmoud Abbas has postponed the Palestinian elections and scheduled the presidential poll for September 2027. The date, the scope and the access were set by the officeholder under review. His last completed review concluded in January 2009, when his four-year term expired; the office has operated past its expiry ever since, in the manner of a lease the tenant declines to conclude, in a building whose landlord has stopped calling.
The incumbent was elected in January 2005 to a term of four years; a previous review cycle, scheduled for 2021, was postponed by the same office. The bureau notes that the species applies planned obsolescence to its clothing — "fashion," per the glossary — so that garments expire on schedule and are replaced. The presidency was issued with a four-year expiry. The expiry has not been applied. The garment remains in service, sixteen years past its date, and has been reissued by its wearer as a heritage line.
Iyad Mansour, Director of Electoral Scheduling at the Central Elections Commission, explained the timetable without discomfort. "September 2027 was chosen because it is far enough away to require no preparation and close enough to look planned. Scheduling elections is the commission's core competency. Holding them is a separate department, currently unstaffed." Hana Barakat, a professor of administrative law, was asked about the Basic Law, which allots the office four years. "It has allotted four years for sixteen years," she said. "The clause remains very popular on paper." The officeholder's office, invited to comment on the timetable, replied in writing: "The president welcomes all reviews. He has never declined one he scheduled himself."
The electorate, which last performed the procedure in 2005, has been placed on a waiting list — the queue of the queue — where it holds position one of one, pending a consultation date of which it will be notified. The bureau classifies the officeholder as a CEO: the dominant primate of a corporate troop. Field observations confirm the dominant primate drafts the troop's evaluation, assigns the grade, and files it where the troop cannot read, then congratulates the troop on its results.
Finding: the reviewee controls the date, the scope and the instrument of his own review, and has operated it sixteen years past expiry without incident. Remediation plan: drafted by this desk; its compliance deadline was amended by the party under review, who moved it to September 2027, a date selected by no committee and movable by exactly one officeholder. Recurrence risk: total.
Decision of the desk: this cycle is graded "in progress," a grade the desk has held since January 2009 without complaint and at no cost to the reviewee. Revision will occur upon receipt of a review whose date was not chosen by the man being reviewed. The next review is scheduled. So was the last one.
