Al-Anisi of Islah to YT: “After the GPC sensed its failure, it created a lot of problems through its associates.” [Archives:2001/09/Law & Diplomacy]
February 26 2001
In an statement to Yemen Times he said, “The developments are based on a arranged plan prepared before the elections. The plan targeted all the areas where parties other than the ruling party could gain some ground. However, after the GPC sensed its failure, it created a lot of problems through its associates.”
He added, “The violations that occurred on the 20th of February are intentional. Right now, it has become clear that GPC supporters who had already voted in some centers, were being ordered to vote in centers in which the electoral process was suspended. This is so as to win whatever is left of more than 30 electoral centers, in which the GPC stopped the electoral process until it could secure a sure win.”Mr. Al-Anisi also explained that what the GPC condemns as ‘terrorism’ is actually done by the side that has the media, assets, and the army on its side. As for Islah, it is a peaceful, well-known party, which has a clear stand regarding terrorism that all are aware of.
“The mockery that we witnessed in these elections reached a level in which ballots have been photocopied on the orders of the Supreme Elections Committee in many governorates. Until this very moment, the SEC has not agreed on which centers to have the elections resumed or redone in, and it doesn’t know the voting weight to be given to the different electoral centers. So if it sees that if the GPC’s presence in some centers is significant, it would give it great voting weight, but if it does not have influence there, it would give it little weight. This is what has been done so far, and is still being done until today” he concluded.
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