The Palestinian election commission tasked with organising polls promised by Yasser Arafat last week has resigned, members of the organisation said on Thursday, giving different reasons. Mohammed Eshtayal said that the committee had stepped down over a conflict of interest, given that one of its nine members was a minister and another a senior member of the Palestinian authority. But another member, who asked not to be named, said that the committee resigned on Wednesday because Arafat had failed to decree a date for the polls, and the Palestinian Parliament had not approved the electoral law promulgated in 1995. Bureau Report