Al-Jamaheer [Archives:2004/799/Press Review]

8 Dec. 2004
Main headlines
– Manipulation of specifications aborts projects of Development Fund in Amran
– Parliament members voice their resentment about the draft budget
– Amidst demand for his punishment, Director-General of civil service in Taiz stands trial
– Information campaign on Sana'a basin inaugurated
– Final recommendations of women rights in Islam and social justice symposium

Columnist Mohammed Mohammed al-Zubairi says in his article that democratic work, of whatever kind is a system whose links reflect outputs of the nature of its composition and contents of its pot and defines proportions and levels of its success. The local councils, in this democratic context, represent with their results an image of this experiment that reveals the existence of regulations, law and council bodies as a general framework for the experiment, but according to scientific criteria, it has lacked the conditions of its success.
The more important is that the government has contributed greatly to failure of this experiment and its bodies, as they did not complete the infrastructure. Many districts are still lacking of offices for branches of some ministries and the specialized cadres to enable them perform their work. Thus, there is some one who is beneficiary from the attempt to abort the experiment. It was expected that the GPC would deal with transparency, disclose, and render accountable of those causing that. The future of the experiment is associated with the government help in spreading the electoral awareness among the citizens and completes the institutional construction and granting of authorities.
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