Al-Wahdawi [Archives:2006/944/Press Review]
2 May 2006.
Main headlines
– Officials charged with corruption in Ibb detained
– Tribal revenges in Mareb
– Presidential candidate al-Hamdi: The regime fabricates crises to solve its problems
– Nasserite Secretary-General meets head of the National Democratic Institute
– 17 soldiers from Coast Guard fired from service
– Deputy chairman of elections commission: I refused to sign reply to opposition file because of violations
– Al-Haq party does not intend to withdraw from JMP
– Chairman of UN Security Council sanctions committee to vast the region to discuss issues of Zindani and al-Qadi
The newspaper's political editor has written saying the ruling party has jumped over the opposition to all that it wants and opposed by the opposition. It did not respond to or hold dialogue on the JMP initiative for the national and political reform. The ruling part also did not bother itself to respond or hold dialogue about the supreme commission of elections that the JMP accuses of impartiality and violation of the constitution and the laws and not even about guarantees for free and decent elections. It has not dialogued about the letter the JMP handed to the president of the republic in its recent meeting with him.
We don not want here to give a judgment on the ruling party or its intention but out of its responsibility and position of its authority we demand it to explain the situation that the political action has reached on the Yemeni arena and whether that was tense or not, and if has any relation to democratic climates and calculations as a national gain we have accomplished and looking forward to a day we can live completely as protecting the unity and mobilize the people for development as well as building a front of social peace. We want to know if the ruing party does still believe in pluralism and the other opining, giving the opposition a space for movement and keeps bridges and channels open.
The ruling party is now facing a big problem that we do not think it can treat especially after it had foiled initiatives and arguments of the opposition, defeated its role, and has gone ahead dealing with matters solely. In addition, it has stabilized in the people minds their conviction that it is the party that is meant by foiling national initiatives and would not present them. Is it expected with this critical political situation that it would put pressure on itself and change its pursuit and thus comes forward with an initiative restoring the national political experiment to its legal legitimacy free from violations?
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