it is high time i got the rights back to the peoples of the south

[جبل هيل]

it is high time got the rights back to the peoples of the southoo
no dout hat the colapse of the regime in sana has started its endOO
it is just a matter of time, eventhough that ali salih thinks that he can play his game and false the election, he must know now that 1997 is copmletly different than 2006OO
the political rythem in the country has completed its ripe towards puting an end to the suffering of the peoples particuraly in the southoo
WE THINK THAT THE JOINT MEETING PARTIES UNDERSTAND THIS GAME AND THE FAKE IN ORDER TO REVEAL IT TO THE PUBLIC AND NOT TO PROVID ANY KIND OF LIGITHIMITY TO THIS MILITARY TRIBAL REGIME ANY MORE.


Opposition not happy with SCER regarding agreement of principles
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Mohammed bin Sallam





Some opposition ******s at the press conference. Photo by Tawfiq Al-Absi

SANA'A, Aug. 9 — In a press conference last Monday, the four opposition parties of the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) announced that they will stick to the imperativeness of accurate and true implementing of the agreement of principles, considering its articles as national pledges. They held the ruling party responsible for committing what they described as grave violations of the constitution, the law and the agreement of principles.

In a statement distributed at the press conference, the opposition parties waived returning to the parties’ leading bodies to adopt a suitable stance if the JMP reaches a deadlock with the authority and the Supreme Commission for Election and Referendum (SCER) on implementing the agreement of principles. They also warned against breaches resulting from procrastination in fully executing the agreement as a whole.

Leading member of the Nasserite Organization and deputy chairman of the JMP executive committee, Mohammed Al-Sabri, said all options are open before the JMP, “either serious participation or active boycotting,” if the authority and the ruling party don’t stop violating the constitution.

“Under the evidence prepared beforehand in an illegal manner, sound polling won’t allow the correct expression of the voters’ will,” he added, wondering about the SCER’s failure in making special arrangements to enable four million Yemeni expatriates to exercise their constitutional right to choose the president of the republic.

JMP spokesman Mohammed Qahtan ascertained that the SCER didn’t undertake its duties legally or constitutionally because it didn’t determine mechanisms to monitor media if their impartiality is violated, as well as the neutrality of governorate and district governors, whose impartiality the constitution stipulates.

Qahtan added that the law not only mentions media impartiality during the election campaigning period, but also providing equal opportunities for all political parties and organizations to submit their visions and programs during the election period and other periods in general.



He expressed astonishment at extensive media coverage on the Yemeni satellite channel and newspapers of the five-day General People’s Congress’s seventh extraordinary conference devoted to GPC candidate Ali Abdullah Saleh. He also wondered at the SCER’s stance of arguing that it’s not forced to implement the agreement of principles, holding it responsible for not fulfilling its duties as stipulated by law and referendum.



Qahtan also mentioned that the SCER ignored 8,800 fake election cards bearing the names of Arab artists like Nancy Ajram and pictures of some trade products, questioning why the SCER didn’t send them to courts and general prosecution, how the cards were granted to Arab artists and who was responsible for it? He expects SCER members nominated by the JMP will hold a press conference in a few days to inform the public about real situations within the SCER.



The JMP statement on violating the agreement of principles alleged that the ruling party has procrastinated in implementing the agreement regarding expanding SCER membership, as well as delaying enabling the additional two members to undertake their job until now The statement mentioned that there was no response to forming a technical team to be entrusted with examining the electoral record and insisted on limiting its role to receiving names suspected of correctness and confining checking to the SCER’s technical apparatus, which has managed the registration process and failures accompanying it.



Proving the existence of disorder, the statement announced 160,000 Sana’a cases involving names of children ages 5 to 10 but does not mention the children to age 18. At the time of announcing sending 8,800 election card cases to Prosecution, the SCER didn’t send those granted the cards to Prosecution.



The opposition statement warned against setting off armed forces against the JMP. It alleged media violation of the agreement of principles via propaganda for the GPC candidate and refusing to cover JMP activities, indicating that this represents the most dangerous constitutional and legal violations, adding that instigating anything against the opposition during employee meetings and training courses of the civil as well as military establishment is a clear infringement of their neutrality.





“The ruling party has potential state and local authority ******ship in the electoral process who are not in favor of proposals offered by international organizations specialized in tackling the electoral registry,” the statement read. It cited official media propaganda devoted to covering GPC seventh conference proceedings, whereas they declined to cover activities of the JMP candidate.



For his part, Qahtan, head of Islah’s political office, didn’t rule out that the SCER members representing the JMP will hold a press conference to clarify what’s going on inside the commission. Dr. Mohammed Saleh Al-Qubti, head of the Yemeni Socialist Party political office, hinted that the JMP will go to ‘the court of the people.’



More than once, the JMP confirmed the elections’ importance, especially under the exceptional circumstances Yemen is experiencing, in addition to it being a constitutional mandate, for which all circumstances must be prepared to hold them at their fixed time in a free and decent manner. JMP said the upcoming elections could express the people’s will and be the gate through which Yemen will step on the right path of political and national reform and building a modern Yemen.