Al-Wahdawi [Archives:2006/930/Press Review]
14 Mar 2006
Main headlines
– Yemeni teachers began their strike with putting red badges
– International committee alls the authority to stop its campaigns against journalists
– In the symposium on peaceful transfer of power, Islah secretary-general al-Yadoumi: Nothing is cooked behind scenes with the ruling party
– Prisoners of Political Security in Taiz exposed to torture
Writer Ahmed Saeed says in his article during the past years of the unity age, the country has paid unbelievable price due to receding progress and development of democracy because of the siege imposed on it after passing and amending laws restricting the democratic development and curbing expansion of freedoms.
It seems that the JMP is ready to bear a share of the burden dictated by duties of effecting progress of the country. That has appeared in its recently announced vision for securing free and upright elections and before that its project for the comprehensive political and national reform. Unfortunately, the tendencies for delivering the homeland from backwardness and corruption are faced by campaigns of skepticism in ability of the opposition to offer solutions and treatments, the latest of which is what has been excited on the issue of changing the lections supreme commission. More than once the authority propagates that the opposition uses much argument concerning the elections commission and ties to create a political crisis with the ruling party because the opposition does not have a presidential nominee agreed upon by all parties of the JMP.
The authority endeavors to push the opposition to disclose its cards. The JMP has realized that goal and that is why it has announced clearly that the question of announcing the name of a candidate for the presidency is too early. It wants first to have the electoral arena be cleared and to have reforms in the present electoral system. In addition, the alliance of the opposition is not connected only with the elections but also with a peaceful struggling program.
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