Al-Sahwa [Archives:2005/900/Press Review]

1 Dec. 2005
Main headlines

– JMP announces national reform initiative,

– Leaders of JMP: We would struggle to achieve the initiative peacefully and constitutionally

– Establishment of parliamentary democratic system

– Politicians: JMP's project the best achievement by Yemenis in the 20th century

– GPC's leader stresses the ruling party's right to change the republican regime to monarchic

– Parliamentary fears from the government's measures regarding HUNT lawsuit

– Killer of martyr Jarallah Omar executed

– State-owned press accuses the JMP initiative of deception

– The parliament cancels decision on banning motorcycles inside the capital

– Clashes in Saadah

– Registration of Somali refugees stopped

Columnist Zaid al-Shami writes in his article that the JMP, a grouping of Yemeni opposition political parties, has recently announced its initiative for the political and national reform. It is an initiative long-waited by all political forces including the ruling party that has been demanding the JMP for apperception to solve problems of the country and accuses it of inability to offer an alternative. Now as the JMP presented its initiative the ruling party denies it and expresses fears from it.

The ruling party, more than any other, knows how bad the situations developed and what its unwise policies have caused in making crises, generating seditions, loss of stability, aggravation of corruption and absence of justice and equality.

As a result the General People's Congress was forced to call for a national dialogue in an attempt to come out of the dilemma. It has been discovered later that the GPC was not serious in listening to the other opinion. It was clear it was looking for justifications to its policies to be sanctioned by he political forces.

The JMP initiative has come as a vision submitted to study issued out of a national feeling of the importance of contributing to reforming the situations and facing causes of corruption.

All are in the same boat and any destruction done to it all would be drowned. It was expected that the initiative would be studied with a scrutinizing eye and sense of responsibility. We should have listened to objective discussion instead of angry replies. Nevertheless such reactions indicate that the initiative has diagnosed where the ills lie.
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