Al-Wahdawi [Archives:2006/942/Press Review]
25 Apr 2006
Main headlines
– The ruling party drives children into elections process, manipulation in electors records
– The president backs down from constitutional amendments
– The JMP expresses its regret for non-seriousness of the GPC leadership in reaching positive results of the dialogue
– Presidential candidate Abdulrahman al-Hamdi:
Members of the military establishment will not hesitate in contributing to change
– Thirteen persons imprisoned on accusation of planning for attacks on foreign interests in Sana'a
– The new Iraqi government embodies sectarianism
– Hundreds of poultry extinct in Al-Saddah
– A child kidnapped in Taiz
The writer Ahmed Saeed says in an article the ruling party, with all the powers it owns on instruments of winning the elections, will not be able to go alone to attain the coming constitutional due in isolation from completion of the political equation of authority and opposition. It is a fact that should not be set aside or exceeded otherwise the equation will be lost and there would be a return to trenches of totalitarianism the people have got rid of after great suffering and sacrifices.
The volume of hindrance and abortion attempts against the dialogue between the president of the republic and the JMP last week indicates that there are some in the ruling party leadership having interest in fabricating crises to impede any progress for laying correct bases for the democratic course.
Stopping dialogue at this timing has its dangerous implications. They are the preoccupation of the public opinion with political and media bickering to cover scandals of violations of the law in the process of registration and squandering time in a manner the political forces will not find an opportunity for achieving a joint action serving the democratic equation and the homeland and consequently protecting the state and its political directions. There is no decisive way for surmounting the difficulties blocking soundness of the procedures of the coming elections other than dialogue and guarantees of its success that all parties of the political system would agree upon.
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