RAMALLAH, Dec 31: In a stormy session. Palestinian lawmakers decided Tuesday to hold off for three months on a vote of no-confidence In Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's government, reports AP.

The council had threatened the vote last week to protest Arafat's failure to sign most of the laws it has passed since 1996, or to accept its recommendation for a cabinet reshuffle in the wake of disclosures of government corruption and mismanagement.

On Sunday. Arafat promised legislators from his own Fatah movement to reshuffle the cabinet within a month and to sign 18 of the 37 laws the council has drafted — including laws on the budget, political parties, and press freedoms.

If these are implemented it will be an administrative revolution," said Public Works Minister Azzam al Ahmed.

But several legislators were angry that Arafat did not respond to the council in writing, and said the council did not have to accept deals he made only with Fatah lawmakers.

we still have no real answers and no real solutions." said Ziad Abu Amr. an independent lawmaker from Gaza City.

"Is he going to implement changes in the institutions of the Palestinian Authority?