Al-Thawry [Archives:2006/928/Press Review]

Ath-Thawri weekly, organ of the YSP
– JMP: It is no longer acceptable to forge the voters' will and empty pluralism of its content

– Qahtan: The situation of the country no longer bears any form of bargaining

– YSP in Saada welcomes agreement with al-Houthi followers

– Shovels demolish three houses in Buraiqa

– Demand to try officer of armored brigade 37 for dragging on ground the soldier Sael

Writer Mohammed Mohammed al-Maqaleh says in an article the decision taken by the authority lately in the name of the elections supreme commission to keep away opposition parties from taking part in election committees is a decision no one thought of unless it is meant against opposition parties. The decision wants to remind the opposition that the authority possesses everything including the authority over the elections commission and whatever decisions that could be issued by it. Such decisions which are taken by the commission regarding the coming elections. In its stand it depends on a long history of disregard and negligence of opposition parties' reactions, specifically the parties of the JMP. The authority in its recent decision versus the opposition has proceeded from convictions that seem to be firm in its mind. The conviction is that the opposition parties that call for re-formation of he elections commission and forming another one are not serious in their demands as much as an attempt of extortion and realization of narrow partisan interests for this party or that. If the authority realized these undeclared demands these parties would relinquish their political and national demands and visions. The conviction of the authority is that the opposition is weak and possesses no power of influence and has no option other than accepting the decision of pushing it away.

Personally I say the authority is much mistaken in assessment of the volume of opposition and the status and influence of opposition in practical events of elections especially that the opposition parties can turn over the table of the presidential election in the face of the authority and make it confused and without a decision. It is quite enough that the opposition sticks to its stand towards the elections supreme commission and refuses any dialogue with the authority before the later rectifies its stance of this issue.
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